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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., History told by names of streets. (search)
house, not many years since was the Mystic trotting park. Blocks of stores, garage and dwellings now line its new streets. These bear the names of former proprietors and turfmen — Wright, Willis, Bonner, Golden and Trott. Hicks avenue leads to the later Combination park and perpetuates its projector's name. Dexter street recalls a former owner, and in the corner of the city are another owner's children's names — Joseph, Lewis, Edward and Henry. Away back in 1845 Edward Hastings and Samuel Teel laid out the land on either side High street from the Woburn road to the Lowell railroad. A plan of the same has recently come to the Historical Society on which one reads, offensive trades prohibited by indenture. The noble elms bordering those streets were also of the proprietors' foresight. The names they gave remain today, save Lowell, which failed to displace the appropriate one of Canal, and there were Canal streets leading to the Middlesex canal in other towns also. Brooks s