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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
trous to her enterprise, and the school was closed. After her return she lived perhaps in the old home till its burning, and later in the mansion on Canal street. Whether the younger T. P. Smith or his father-in-law, Ebenezer, was one of the Brooklands company referred to by the canal company's agent in his report, on closing the company's affairs in '52, we cannot say, but the canal's lands and tavern were in 1870 a part of that purchased of the trustees of the Smith estate. One, Benjamin E. Bates, had a plan made of the triangular plot next High street. It showed the outlines of Mystic Hall on its lot and seven distinct lots of from 35,000 to 65,000 square feet area. Evidently the day of small house lots had not then come. The plan was by a noted surveyor, J. F. Fuller of Boston. It was lithographed, and announced these lots for sale on Monday, October 29, 1866, at 3.30 P. M. by Samuel A. Walker, auctioneer of Boston, who was famed in his calling, and whose advertising poste