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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Fin De Siecle. (search)
y were several rum distilleries, the pump in the square supplied man and beast with nature's own beverage, and was the starting point of three principal roads of the baker's dozen the selectmen named. The first was from the town pump, west to Charlestown line, High street; second, east to Malden line, Salem; and third, south to foot of Winter hill, Main. Three streets branched to the right from High street to Woburn line. Purchase (now Winthrop), Woburn and Grove. Today only the three Hall houses below Governors avenue, the Unitarian parsonage, and the old Magoun cottage opposite remain of those standing in 1829. The present Winthrop square was then called Turell's corner. A new road had then been recently proposed which would have crossed the Playstead and Brooks estate, and also the Aberjona river, to the West Cambridge road, but instead, another was partially bought, hence its name. It made a more direct and level route to Upper Medford, and left old Woburn street to beco
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
press route to Boston, having an order slate at Macy's. Mr. Usher next built another small store and upper room beside Macy's, into which a house painter came. In the summer of 1871 Mr. Usher branched out some more, building in the intervening lot next the old house a one-story wooden block containing four stores. A grocery was started in two, a drug store by Amasa Beach, Jr., in one, and two dress-makers took the other. These we have named sufficed for three years. The new grocery of Hall & Co. had but a brief run, then a fish man tried it, and in 1872 Artemas Poole, a shoe-maker, came in. Meanwhile a livery and boarding stable for D. K. Richardson had been built just beyond Whitmore brook, and Mr. Usher had begun to publish the Medford Journal in December, 1870. Mr. Usher's stable was struck by lightning and burned and he replaced it by a new and larger building, which early in 1875 he moved across High street. This caused a rearrangement. Two buildings were moved to Aub
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., And who was Peter Tufts? (search)
etings there and the town's effort to maintain worship without any existing church organization—not a very successful venture, either, as the town records, which had begun to be kept, show us. But the eighteenth century had begun, and in 1712 a new movement started—Meadford had a Fast Day and time of prayerful consideration of church gathering. Preparing for this, one Brooks provided neats toong and cheese, and Captain Peter must have killed the fatted calf for veall for the fast, and Mrs. Hall entertained the ministers. What the liquid refreshment was does not appear, but the town paid the bill, as the town book shows eleven shillings and ninepence, a very modest outlay. Doubtless Peter Tufts had his part in the general jubilation at the ordination feast of the new minister, Rev. Aaron Porter. We wish he had left some record of his mile-and-half journey up to the meeting-house just after the wild snow-stown, when more people came than could get into the meeting-house. What