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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
stood about two rods from the Wyatt house. Its removal was probably caused by the erection of the new dwelling of James Madison Usher, who was born in the old Whitmore-Usher home in 1814. This new house with its stable was shaded by many trees, enlarged in 1871, and was enclosed by a massive front fence. In May, 1870, only he 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 summer vacation, but at times returns, but not to its former volume. When the street widening is complete we suggest that with the new order the locality be named Whitmore square, in remembrance of its early settler, the good Deacon John Whitmore, whose house, built in 1680, stood here till the twentieth century came. That he was a worthy citizen of the old time is seen in the text of his funeral serm
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The tornado of 1851. (search)
er 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 the ensuing week. This report was in a neatly bound volume of seventy-t
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Our illustrations. (search)
Our illustrations. The houses of John Whitmore, senior, and his son John, adjoined, and the latter may have been later the Amos Warren house. Both may have been moved across High street at the erection of the J. M. Usher residence, prior to 1850. The view of Holton halls (1904), was secured prior to the erection of the fire station. Note the circular water tank (now removed). In more recent change the church tower and belfry were removed and the intervening space enclosed and walls stuccoed, now Community hall. After the tornado, the Deacon Sanford house was moved to corner Canal and Prescott streets, where it still shows the door in end closed up.