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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
a fish man tried it, and in 1872 Artemas Poole, a shoe-maker, came in. Meanwhile a livery and boarding stable for D. K. Richardson had been built just beyond Whitmore brook, and Mr. Usher had begun to publish the Medford Journal in December, 1870. Mr. Usher's stable was struck by lightning and burned and he replaced it by a neueeze four stores and an upper hall into it. Foster & Pierce opened a grocery and William Hixon an upholstery room in this. Edward Shaw bought a lot beside Whitmore brook and erected his dwelling with a store in front and express stable in the rear. Later he built a second dwelling and an enlargement of the store, which is nowains, as does also its proprietor, Mr. Ober, ninety-two, the dean of the business men of Medford. The post office has been moved into its new quarters beside Whitmore brook. When High street was named it crossed Meeting-house and Whitmore brooks not only by bridges but by fording places. For some years the latter has had a summ
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The tornado of 1851. (search)
never been to the village since that day to make any stop, but looked over the ground somewhat and while there met a man he knew, the late Lorin L. Dame. One person was fatally injured, Mr. Thomas Huffmaster. Struck by a joist in the breast, he died from its effect soon after. His house was on High street, corner of Allston, later that of his son-in-law, J. H. Norton. The schoolhouse on Canal street was utterly destroyed, its floor with the seats attached laid upside down across Whitmore brook. School was to have begun on the following Monday. The big Whitmore elm escaped with little injury, but a horse-chestnut at Warren street was so wrenched and twisted as to show the effect thirty years later. Another, near by, blossomed anew in the following weeks. The storm seemed to have begun its havoc with over $4,000 damage in Waltham, $23,606 in Arlington and $18,768 in Medford. These figures we gather from the report of a committee chosen by citizens in West Medford during
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The West Medford post office. (search)
f ten years, and is most admirably adapted to the needs of the postal service. Twenty-six men and several motor trucks are required to attend the daily routine. The building is of colonial design and its purpose need not be mistaken, as on the front entrance is West Medford, on the second-story entablature United States Post Office, and above all the staff from which the stars and stripes daily fly. Its frontage is fifty-two feet, its depth ninety-two feet, and it occupies a lot beside Whitmore brook, hitherto vacant from time immemorial. In 1872 the Congregational parish thought of building there, but its architect deemed the site unsuitable. One of the clerical force, Warren E. Wescott, has given an excellent account of this post office from its institution in November, 1852 (elaborating that of Mr. Farnum in Register, Vol. XVI, p. 38):— The office occupied a space about ten feet square in the back part of the store, the entrance being from the Harvard avenue door. The re