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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
Farm, bought by Richard Gale in 1661. The Kilham place was taxed to Joseph Hagar in 1798. Standing on the hill to the west of South Street it commands an extensive view. Farther south on this street is the Harrington farm, bought by their ancestor in 1684, being then the S. W. half of the Oldham Farm. Below the Fitchburg Railroad there stood an old house, long since taken down, that belonged to Samuel Dexter, Esq., in 1798. Where the Miller place now is stood the residence of Benjamin Harrington, taken down about 1851. It was supposed to have been one of the oldest houses in Waltham, if not the very oldest. The farm was probably a portion of the Oldham Farm. Nathan Upham, taxed in 1798 for a house on the south side of Main Street, built the first mill at Stony Brook, near South Street. It was a paper mill, and he and his brother Amos served their apprenticeship with John Boies. It passed into the hands of William Parker, of Cambridge, who moved a small house from Cambri