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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Medford and her Minute Men, April 19, 1775. (search)
he wrote on August 18, 1775, My dearest Father: . . . I have enclosed a newspaper containing copies of some letters wrote by some of the principal people at the Congress, wh were intercepted by us. You will perceive from them that their aim is (what I am convinced it has ever been) Independence. To that end rose Medford and her Minute Men one hundred and fifty years ago today. Bibliography. Wild, Medford in the Revolution. Medford, past and present. Usher, History of Medford. Cutter, History of Arlington. Sears, Menotomy. Arlington, past and present. Corey, History of Malden. Farrington, Paul Revere and his famous ride. Bolton, Letters of Hugh Earl Percy. Murdock, The nineteenth of April. French, The day of Concord and Lexington. Coburn, The battle of April 19, 1775. Hooper, Roads of old Medford and bridges in Medford. (Medford Historical Register, 1899). Old Medford houses and Estates. (Medford Historical Register, 1904.) Dyer, Sons of liberty. Brown, Beneath old roof-trees.
Our illustrations. The houses of John Whitmore, senior, and his son John, adjoined, and the latter may have been later the Amos Warren house. Both may have been moved across High street at the erection of the J. M. Usher residence, prior to 1850. The view of Holton halls (1904), was secured prior to the erection of the fire station. Note the circular water tank (now removed). In more recent change the church tower and belfry were removed and the intervening space enclosed and walls stuccoed, now Community hall. After the tornado, the Deacon Sanford house was moved to corner Canal and Prescott streets, where it still shows the door in end closed up.
was completed early in the spring of 1874, but was not opened to the public until September. Mr. Charles A. Ellsworth took charge June 22, 1874, and resigned April 15, 1883. He was followed by Mr. Waterhouse of Medford, who was succeeded by Mr. Henry Angier of Somerville, who in turn was succeeded by Mr. Thomas Leahy of Medford, the present superintendent. This bridge was repaired several times and was replaced by the one built by the Metropolitan Park Commission, which was completed in 1904. Just across the Mystic on a beach, now filled in, a short distance east of the bridge, is the probable site of the launching of the first vessel of any size whose keel was laid on the Mystic. She was a bark of thirty tons called The Blessing of the Bay, and was built by Governor Winthrop and launched July 4, 1631, costing, £ 145. Five years later Governor Winthrop said he would sell her for £ 160. The Osgood school (now the home of the Wellington Improvement Association) was built on
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