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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., Wood's dam and the mill beyond the Mystic. (search)
No mention of it is, however, to be found upon the records of that town. The records of the Medford selectmen show that on November 9, 1864, they voted, that B. F. Wood of West Cambridge be notified to remove the dam maintained by him across Mystic River. He evidently did not do so, as on April 9, 1866, it was voted, that Messrs. Foster & Gilmore be a committee to investigate the matter of Wood's dam and report on the same. A week later the record notes the receipt and filing of a letter fro somebody had removed the dam, and that Mr. Wood, who appears to have had good staying qualities, had rebuilt it. A little later the selectmen voted, that the clerk notify the Harbor Commissioners, that Mr. Wood had constructed a dam across Mystic River. Another month passed away and the record shows a curious state of affairs at the town house, as it was then voted, that Mr. Hastings be a committee to write a letter to the Harbor Commissioners in relation to Wood's Dam and that the former c
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., A pioneer railroad and how it was built. (search)
, and ever afterward was continued in its employ. Being a man of natural gifts and a close observer of mechanical matters, he constructed a set of models of the first engines, cars (both passenger and freight), a pile driver with its tread mill for hoisting the hammer, and other railroad appliances, which is a most instructive exhibit of the early days of railroad enterprise in Massachusetts. A pile bridge carried the rails across Charles river. Miller's river in East Cambridge, and Mystic river between Charlestown and Medford; while granite abutments that still remain buried in the embankment, carried the track at an elevation of nine feet above the water in the canal in the western corner of Medford, adjoining the crooked corner of then Charlestown. As a matter of record and because of the changes being made at the present time by the Metropolitan Park Commission be it noted that the canal's location was northerly thirty paces from the five mile post. By their recent chang