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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Harriet W. Brown. (search)
d Ship and Salem streets, two of the five that lead from Medford Square. High street as it was forty-five years ago is the present subject of one then a new-comer. On a pleasant day in early June, 1870, a matter of business took him from Wear bridge to the square, and though provided with a horse a little later, he covered the distance that day on foot. Wear bridge was not then the substantial structure of today, and beneath the old one, a view of which may be seen in the city report of 1894, the incoming tide swiftly surged. An island lay a little down stream, and a little farther on the Arlington side, shaded by large willows, was the picturesque Wood's mill, with its low but hated and fated dam. On the left lay the broad acres of the Brooks estate, enclosed by walls of dark Medford granite, just behind which were spruce trees, as well as others of deciduous variety. Well back from the road and on the rising ground were the Mystic hickories, and farther on, but nearer the hi
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Our illustration. (search)
t view. This was taken subsequent to some repair below the belfry and after the invasion of the foliated capitals of the columns by the English sparrows. To protect the worshipers from defilement these are enclosed in wire netting which detracts from their original beauty. The old Withington house (now gone) is seen at the right, and part of Doctor's Row (formerly Rotten Row) at the left in this view. Next in order of construction (upper left) was that of the First Parish (Unitarian) in 1894. When this group of views was made (for the purpose of illustration of some special Sunday services) the photographer mistook it for the Universalist church, which was the one desired. It, however, serves our purpose well. The main building is of stone, and by later thought the belfry was also so built. The small ventilating towers at the side are a special and pleasing feature, and the vines clinging to its walls add to its beauty. A large memorial window in its front is especially noti
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame (search)
ch the citizens are already cognizant. Meanwhile the persistence of the chairman of the school committee had at last borne fruit. The most important action which Medford ever took in reference to public schools was the appropriation last year (1894) of $150,000 for the erection of a new high school building. At this time Mr. Lawrence's demand that a new high school should seat five hundred and have capacity for six hundred or seven hundred pupils was considered so extreme as to be hardly wh the pupils themselves the significance of the works of art which surrounded them. The character of the whole city was rapidly changing. In 1899 the school committee summarize the changes made recently as follows: The erection of the Lincoln (1894), Hillside (1895), High (1896) and Brooks (1898) schoolhouses, the enlargement of the Tufts (1898), and the improvements in sanitation and ventilation of the Centre, Cradock, Everett, Swan and James (1896), while they have cost us money, have in s
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