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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The two hundred seventy-fifth anniversary. (search)
The two hundred seventy-fifth anniversary. In June, 1905, the two hundred seventy-fifth birthday of Medford was celebrated with appropriate civic, literary and religious ceremonies. All historic sites were duly designated and the markers remain to assist the pilgrim in search of ancient lore. The buildings in all parts of the city were beautifully decorated, and the square was bright with bunting by day, and aflame with many electric lights by night. On June 14, flag day, the Massachusetts Sons of the Revolution placed on the grounds belonging to the house (standing today almost unchanged) where Captain Isaac Hall of the Medford minute men lived, a bronze tablet upon a boulder of Medford granite. The tablet was unveiled by Vernon Howland Hall, 2d, the youngest male representative of the family of Hall in the city, and bears the following inscription: on this site lived Captain Isaac Hall who commanded the Medford Minute men at Lexington and Bunker Hill Paul Revere stop