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Wood's dam and the mill beyond the Mystic. by Moses W. Mann.
In the summer of 1870, the writer, then a new-comer to Medford, first heard mention of the destruction of Wood's dam, which was situated below the island, a few rods down-stream from Wear bridge.
His informant was a reputable citizen, evidently in little sympathy with the doings, as he remarked that some young fellows, who hadn't anything to do but row pleasure boats, were the destroyers, and added, there was some poetry (?) in the papers about it.
As the incident created considerable excitement at the time, and as public opinion was somewhat divided in relation to it, the present account is written.
There had been at that locality a small mill, operated by the receding tide, from a time almost immemorial.
Rev. Charles Brooks, in writing the history of Medford, published in 1855, said, There was a mill a short distance below Wear Bridge, but who built it, or how long it stood, we have not been able to disco
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., A pioneer railroad and how it was built. (search)
A pioneer railroad and how it was built. by Moses Whitcher Mann.
[Read before the Medford Historical Society, April 20, 1908.]
NEAR the close of the Eighteenth Century a certain English physician (Dr. Darwin), in a burst of fancy, or was it prophecy, wrote:—
Soon shall thy arm unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide waving wing expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air,— Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.
Several years ago it was my pleasure to read before this society a paper upon an Eighteenth Century Enterprise, and to call therein especial attention to the attempt made to utilize the power of steam in dragging the slow barges along the placid waters of the Middlesex Canal in 1818-19.
Before the first steamboat had made its trips in Boston Harbor, a steam canal bo
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., The Society's magazine. (search)