hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28.. You can also browse the collection for Gustavus Abbott or search for Gustavus Abbott in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
chusetts carpenters how to build. It was destroyed by fire two years later and Mr. Folsom moved away. In 1872 the brothers Elijah and Warren Morse had a double house erected on High street. They moved in just after the big Boston fire, and Warren lived out his days there. In the fall of ‘73 Samuel S. Holton, Jr., had his house on Boston avenue built, and occupied it just after his marriage—the first (with the exception of Maxwell in the Canal house) to reside on Boston avenue. Next Gustavus Abbott built three houses opposite, and into the central one Henry B. Nottage moved. The lumber for these houses came up the river from East Boston in scows towed by a steam tug. The objective point was the bridge at Boston avenue. Perhaps this may have been the last time the draw of Cradock bridge was opened. It was said that there was a question of the legality of Auburn street bridge and that the captain had intended to force a passage at Auburn street, which bridge was very low and had j