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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
s and on them built the house in which he lived a few years and which after his removal became the home of Grenville Redding. At the Sharon street corner was later the Hall school, taught by Miss Ellen Lane. Joseph E. Ober, Ellis Pitcher and Moses W. Mann bought at the first auction sale lots on Winthrop and Monument streets. Mr. Pitcher was then keeping a little grocery under Mystic Hall and was postmaster. Frank Lincoln was his helper. Mr. Pitcher never built, and only last year sold hiside of the railroad that were there when we came in 1870, and perhaps not more than eight on the eastern side in West Medford. It is a pleasant section of our city in which to live because of its growth and the people that have made it such. We trust we have done our part with them. In this story we have only dealt with the earlier years. Another village, the Hillside, has grown this side the track, another of two hundred houses on the Brooks estate and more coming. —Moses Whitcher Mann
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28.,
Medford Square
in the early days. (search)
Medford Square in the early days. The following address by Moses W. Mann of West Medford was delivered before the Medford Rotary Club. My instructions read thus—You are to tell of Medford square as it has been. So I will begin with its earliest known time. Three hundred years ago it was only the home and haunt of native Americans, the Indian red men. Across it lay the trail or beaten path they made in their journeyings and on which our three streets, Main, Salem and High converge. Near that junction was a small pond and a little way up stream the river was fordable. Opposite that ford the hill rose abruptly high with only a narrow passage at its foot along the river's edge. A former Medford man in writing of his native town said, referring to the eastern and western parts, Medford was a spectacle town, a bulky red nose stuck up between the glasses. The surface of that nose was dark red gravel but the bones behind it are the darker Medford granite which shows now so p
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28.,
Medford Square
in the early days. (search)
Medford Square in the early days. The following address by Moses W. Mann of West Medford was delivered before the Medford Rotary Club. [Continued from September issue.] I have spoken thus far of the beginning of Medford, not as a town, for it was not; nor was this junction of roads we call Medford square a civic center when the people living here began a town government. Unlike every other place in the colony, there was no house of worship here till 1696, and no church formed till 1712. Neither was Medford represented in the General Court till 1689, sixty years after its settlement. Its growth had been very slow. The purchasers of its twenty-four hundred and fifty acres were but four. In two generations their numbers were still small, increased by a few newcomers, like Peter Tufts and the Wades and Brookses. Two of their substantial houses remain today. When they built the first public building (note they called it their meeting-house), they found their central loc
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Season of 1924-25. (search)
esent to give their vacation experiences. President Ackerman told his, in which he felled an oak tree (just over Medford line in Somerville), where thirty-two two-apartment houses have been built. The tree was one hundred and ninety years old. Mr. Mann told of his at the Holton family reunion at Northfield, where he read the historical address on August 28, quoting a little therefrom. Several others alluded to theirs and a pleasant evening (indoors) was passed. November 17. Sudden winter wood—some damage by smoke. But four ventured out to the meeting. January 19, 1925. Annual meeting. Various reports made and officers chosen. January 26. Seven directors held meeting at Mr. Colby's and appointed committees. March 16. Mr. Mann spoke of the old British flag, exhibiting the one captured at Lexington. The evening was taken up with consideration of the coming Patriot's Day. April 20. No meeting was held nor house kept open at this time, owing to the lack of suitable