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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The road through the woods. (search)
merly stood. October, 1709, it reported, Beginning at Adams his gate in Menotomy, allowing three rods in breadth to the Weares, where the road now lyeth a long time improved, and from said weares to Ebenezer Brooks his gate which is between said Brooks and John Francis, and from said Brooks his gate to Symms his farm, . . . assuring to Samuel Brooks the barn one end of which stands in the highway while the barn stands, and no longer. No name was given this road, but the committee told of conBrooks his gate to Symms his farm, . . . assuring to Samuel Brooks the barn one end of which stands in the highway while the barn stands, and no longer. No name was given this road, but the committee told of considering the way to Convers' mill in Woburn (recently Whitney's in Winchester). A short road ran from this to the mill of Symmes (now Wedgemere) which from 1754 to 1851 was in Upper Medford. To this day there are but three or four houses southward from that short road. It remains a country road, with no dwellings, for a mile to the stone farmhouse and Lowell railway. It is beautiful for situation, the rising hill on one side and the shining lakes and higher hills on the other, but in recent