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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
er Tufts conveyed to this oldest son of his forty-five acres of land on the north side of the way to Blanchard's, i.e., Wellington, Also the east half of my brick house, as it is divided by the fore door and stairway, the stairway to be in commony charming when new, with its view from its knoll by the road south over the flooded marshes or the winding river, with Wellington and its old house and one or two other houses lying to the east; behind, the ploughed land and the wood lots, and westwTufts wished to go into Boston, he went along the road to Medford square, for the other end of the road to Blanchard's (Wellington) ended with the gate to that estate, which lay at that time in Malden; he then crossed the Cradock bridge and went alond elsewhere in Medford, and so the tradition ran that they were imported from England, but the bricks of one of the old Wellington houses which was torn down were similar. One other splendid example of local tradition we learned while we were ther
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., History or Fable, which had we? (search)
History or Fable, which had we? Our Historical Society is completing its thirtieth year and with the coming issue the twenty-ninth volume of its publication. There were some who thought in its early days that it would soon exhaust the stock of history, but there is yet a lot to learn. For instance, when was Medford first settled? Where? And who were they who came into this unknown land and built their first habitation? Was it on a promontory, sixty rods southeast of the ancient house. . . of James and Isaac Wellington? This assertion was made (1855): On its highest point they built the first home erected in Medford, in July, 1630. As this spot was then in Charlestown, later Malden and Everett, and not till 1817 or 1875 in Medford, shall we regard it as history or, quoting our former president, as a whole lot of fable? Areal history of Medford's earliest days would be really interesting.