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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Medford Branch canal. (search)
6, 1807. Voted to allow Peter Tufts, Junior account $7.50 for surveying bason of canal Feb 10 1834 Voted That the Proprietors of the Medford Branch Canal & Locks be notified to remove the piece of timber from off the top of the bridge over the said canal in the middle of the said turnpike road, it being an inconvenience and an obstruction to the public travel on said turnpike road; also to make their bridge wider and repair the causeway on each side thereof according to law. Abner Bartlett, esquire, was then the clerk and his entry is followed by Seved a copy on Mr Stearns The piece of timber was evidently for the purpose of keeping passage to the right in either direction, and as this is the only allusion during the years, we may presume that the relations of each corporation were generally pleasant. Eighteen years later (1852), this canal ceased operation, but the turnpike continued a few years longer, only to succumb to the inevitable. Nothing romantic about it,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Medford Saltmarsh Corporation. (search)
f the dyke—the fence is long since gone—and the stump marsh or pine swamp, unique in character and unlike any other. Historian Brooks records that Medford's tax upon this corporation in 1822 was $156.27. We have been curious to know why in 1855 he made selection of 1822 to note, also why he listed this business concern among fraternal societies. At this juncture, we turn to papers in the Historical Society's possession: First A request signed by six corporators in 1821, requesting Abner Bartlett, Justice of the Peace, to issue his warrant to one of their number, directing him to call a meeting of the corporation at the hotel in Medford, on Friday, July 27, 1821, at 3 o'clock P. M. This the squire did, directing Benjamin G. Lerned to notify as the law directs. Second: A written notice or warrant, evidently the copy the printers used. Third: A printed copy of the same, with the name of John Bishop in writing, in proper space left therefor. Fourth: An unused corporation ta