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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., A remembrance. (search)
as your society may deem advisable. Yours very truly, Seal [Signed] Charles A. Winslow, City Clerk. The little token named is an exquisite little painting only 11/16 × 1 5/16 inches in size, fastened to the top of a 2 1/2 × 3 3/4 inch page of fine linen paper by four stitches in its corners, the ends of the thread tasselled. Beneath it is the following legend, written in a very fine but distinct hand:— the Autumn oak trees, designed and painted by Abigail Brown Tompkins, 1921. To the Town of Medford, Mass., in memory of George Luther Stearns, your renowned townsman who was born at Medford, January 8, 1809. Presented with the good wishes of Miss Abigail Brown Tompkins and Miss Emma Louise Tompkins, descendants of founders of the City of Newark, New Jersey, in 1666. south Orange, New Jersey, December 19, 1921. Our versatile and estimable city clerk being in some doubt as to its best disposition, consulted with the curator of the Historical Society, and
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., The Medford Indian monument (search)
in cellar walls. Had the mayor's plan succeeded, it might have been a valuable asset to the locality and maintained by the park department. But what of the Indian monument? After a time it was moved by the new owners to the acute apex of a triangular lot on the new Sagamore avenue. Mention was later made of this in the local papers; also in a Boston daily (September 14, 1911) may be found a similar detailed account of a decaying box moved to another burial plot beneath a maple tree. In 1921 the maple tree having died, this burial plot was cut into, to make a second connection of the newer street with Sagamore avenue. This left the monument on an unsightly mound of earth from which the foundation stones (said to be a vault) protrude. Its condition then was not one to inspire the visitors who came from other places with much respect for such as caused it. But this is not all. On the evening of October 31, last, the monument was overturned by the disorderly element that thus celeb