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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Medford's sky-scraper—the Tufts Telegraphic tower. (search)
tricity with light, heat and power (no pun is intended by this last word), but we can scarcely think that the late Mr. Charles Tufts, who suggested the college that should put a light on that bleak hill, had any thought of electric light, heat, or the subtle energy utilized by the present lofty structure. Since his time the city of Charlestown, in 1862, constructed a reservoir that for some years was regarded with some apprehension. Fear of flood has at length departed, and Medford and Somerville people have made homes in the shadow of its embankments. The daily papers reported that during the reconstruction of the wireless tower one of the workmen, in his hurry for dinner, slid down three hundred feet of rope faster than he expected, but checked by extreme effort his increasing momentum when but fifty feet from the ground. What might have happened, had he been unable to do so, we dislike to consider. We may hope that the new tower is made secure from a recurrence of its ea
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Medford's Metes and bounds. (search)
d's boundary are nearly two-thirds of the corner bounds. Why this crooked line? and why this Somerville appendix that Medford so nearly encloses? The reason is that long ago Charlestown people had d Medford. Number thirty-three is also an unmarked point, the corners of Everett, Medford and Somerville, at the junction of the Malden with Mystic river. After following the serpentine Mystic westerly to a point in line with the monuments Medford Somerville 1 and Medford Somerville 3, the line runs 2,088 feet westerly by Somerville to the point begun at, on the top of Winter hill. This line isMedford Somerville 3, the line runs 2,088 feet westerly by Somerville to the point begun at, on the top of Winter hill. This line is through a witness mark on a line stone beside Mystic avenue, marked M. S. city line, 250 feet from corner thirty-four, and also through another ancient line stone on the site of the old Middlesex caSomerville to the point begun at, on the top of Winter hill. This line is through a witness mark on a line stone beside Mystic avenue, marked M. S. city line, 250 feet from corner thirty-four, and also through another ancient line stone on the site of the old Middlesex canal. Beside these corner monuments there are road stones on east of Main and east of Medford streets, east of College and northeast of Boston avenues, east of Grove, west of Winthrop, and east of M