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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., In another corner of Medford. (search)
l Medford (i.e., Mr. Cradock's farm), so was this likewise a part of ancient Charlestown. That old town, once extensive and once entirely surrounding Medford, is now absorbed by Boston. Its cow-commons have been well defined by our townsman Hooper in his story of the Stinted Pasture. Not until 1754 did Medford acquire this corner, and even then not all the Charlestown proprietors became Medfordites. An examination of the map will show a serrated boundary line extending over and around College hill to a bend in the river, which was north of the railroad. Thence the boundary between Charlestown and Medford continued, as of old, by the thread of the river onward into Mystic lake. In 1850 all of old Charlestown lying outside the Neck (at Sullivan square) as far west as the Menotomy river was incorporated as the town of Somerville. Thus it occurs that the old riverside cow-stints of that long-ago time are sandwiched in between precincts one and two of the sixth ward of Medford. To b