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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The taverns of Medford. (search)
e Middlesex Canal and at the northwest corner of Boston avenue and Arlington street. It was opened and chiefly used as a stopping place for persons employed in navigating the canal. Among its landlords were Messrs. Bowen Crehore, Darius Wait, Joseph Wyatt and Jeremiah Gilson, This house has been removed from its original location, remodeled into tenement houses, and these are now located at the foot of Canal street. There were many persons licensed as innholders from the year 1690 to the yea0, 1801. Usher, Abijah, 1795, 1796, 1797. Usher, Eleazer, 1798, 1799. Usher, Robert, 1792, 1793. Wade, Samuel, 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1719, 1722, 1723, 1724. Wait, Darius, 1813, 1814. Walker, Edward, 1778, 1779. Weston, Wyman, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805. Whitmore, Francis, 1759. Willis, Benjamin, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1723, 1724, 1725, 1726, 1727, 1728, 1729, 1730. Willis, Thomas, 1691, 1692, 1693. Woodward, Daniel, 1690. Wyatt, Samuel, 1819, 1820.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8.,
High street
about 1820. (search)
day. Nearly opposite lived Miss Rebecca's brother Caleb, on the present site of the railroad station. One of the first station agents of the Boston and Lowell railroad at West Medford lived there afterward. He was known as Dontey Green. This house was destroyed by the great tornado. A few rods beyond lived Eleazar Usher, in the house owned by his brother-in-law, Leonard Bucknam. Uncle Leonard was the keeper of the almshouse. Opposite lived Major Gershom Teel and afterward Captain Joseph Wyatt. This house, occupied quite recently by Mr. William J. Cheney, is standing in 1905. Just below the Usher house lived Deacon Amos Warren. Warren street was cut through the deacon's estate and named in his honor. Later Mr. Reed, father of Rebecca Reed, whose story of ill treatment brought about the destruction of the nunnery at Charlestown, lived in the Warren house. Just beyond Whitmore brook, on the north side of the street, lived Captain Samuel Teel. This house is standing (19
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The West End schoolhouse. (search)
ity. The lot was irregular in shape, and so small that the building must have been placed with its side toward the road. Somewhere near by, or on the land, there was a well which John Howe in the following September was paid for cleansing. Within three years from its erection, after much discussion in town meeting, Nathan Adams, Nathan Wait and Noah Johnson attended to its removal to the town's land on Canal lane, near the Medford Almshouse (which was built in 1812), and nearer to Capt. Joseph Wyatt's house on High street. Nearby was the Whitmore Brook, and across High street was a spreading chestnut tree, in whose shade was the village blacksmith shop. Nearby, also, was a lordly elm; while up the lane that crossed the brook, were poplars that are monarchs now. In its new location, with its entrance toward the lane and brook, it stood for twenty years, and was the Hall of Wisdom toward which the youth of the West End turned their steps, until their thirst for knowledge outgre
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., West Medford in 1870. (search)
rn by the tornado of 1850, still stood at the end of Warren street. The old Usher house, decrepit with years, was on the present postoffice site, as was a little one-room building, in which a variety store had once been kept. Beside this was Captain Wyatt's residence, which, enlarged a little, still remains, till recently the residence of his grandson, William Cheney. The Gamage corner had not begun to take on the various additions and alterations, for neither Chinese nor yet Mikado laundry hworthy president. Samuel Teele, Sr., lived in his house on High street. Gilbert Lincoln and J. M. Brock were carpenters by trade as was also J. H. Norton, who employed a number of men. William Cheney and Samuel Teele were of the same trade. Captain Wyatt, one of the master mechanics of the canal, was a familiar figure upon the street, though bowed upon his long staff by the weight of ninety years. Albert Samson lived on Canal street and was bookkeeper for Foster & Co; and Thomas Martin, who s