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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. 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
Wellington estate belonged to the Stearns families almost exclusively. Here lived Deacon Isaac Stearns and his descendants. Joshua Mead owned the Viles estate in 1753, and at his death, in 1794, it passed to his son Moses, who had a shop located at a small water power on Chester Brook, where he manufactured rolling-pins, mortars and pestles, rakes and hoe handles, as celebrated in his day as those of the best present manufacturers. Here, too, was situated the sportsman's paradise, Sam Stearns's wood lot, where partridges, woodcocks, quails, rabbits, and particularly gray squirrels, were formerly very plentiful. Wellington's Grove, the scene of many a Fourth of July celebration, and the old Great Pond, with its quartette of modern names, It is to be hoped that its ancient name of Saltonstall may be restored to this beautiful sheet of water, and forever remain a memorial of the leader of the founders of the old plantation on Charles River. See p. 27. n. 1, where the name Ha