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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., The legend of cheese Rock. (search)
The legend of cheese Rock. For the Forest Festival, June 7, 1882. In sixteen hundred thirty-one, It was a winter day, When Winthrop, Nowell, Eliot, To northward strolled away. The frozen Mistick flood they crossed, Ere Cradock's mansion stood; O'er swamps and rocky hills they pressed, Through miles of lofty wood. They crossed a lovely ice-bound lake, With islands here and there; ‘spot pond’ they called it, from the rocks That showed their noddles bare. Then up northwestwardly they climbed, A hill well crowned with trees, And hungry there, as well might be, They dined on simple cheese. For, why? the guv'nor's man in haste, And careless how they fed, His basket loaded with the cheese And quite forgot the bread. This fact so simple and so grand, To us they handed down; ‘cheese Rock’ they named that lovely hill, Those men of high renown. Some smaller men cut off the trees And then they named it ‘Bare’; And when the bushes wildly grew The spelled it ‘B-e-a-r.’ But natu
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Walnut Tree Hill division of the stinted pasture. (search)
by Menotomy river (Alewife brook) and easterly by Governor John Winthrop's Ten Hills farm, and known as the Walnut Tree hilasterly line of this way was the westerly boundary of Governor Winthrop's Ten Hills farm, and is in part the boundary line beve destroyed this landing place. In the year 1644 Gov. John Winthrop, in his journal, describes the following incident as of which were then covered with a thick forest, that Governor Winthrop lost his way while taking a walk and was obliged to py the incident above referred to, and which is related in Winthrop's History of New England:— October 11, 163, the GoverAll that fence belonging to said common, between it and Mr. Winthrop's farm, which said fence is to begin at Mistick bridge and so along in the line between the said common and Mr. Winthrop's farm, to a rock which is for a bound mark about some sixe southeast side of Winter's brook, where it is to meet Mr. Winthrop's farm fence. The fence is to be made sufficiently, an
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., An old Medford school boy's reminiscences. (search)
house at the corner of the lane, where a Mr. Staniels lived at about 1835. He moved to the top of Winter Hill where he built a showy house very near the fork where Governor Edward Everett once lived and where about two centuries earlier Governor John Winthrop built his cementless stone house. The Mystic region has been a good place for Governors, for we may count Governor Cradock and Governor John Brooks and Governor Everett again. Late in life he lived on the west side of Mystic upper lake. the launching ways of a vessel. Some said it was the place the early Woburn settlers came to for free alewives. To be sure there was a bigger fishery at the outlet of Mystic lake, but our ancestors did not like paying royalties to Cradock and Winthrop grantees of the upper privilege. Some said this beach was made to help the Woburn people move their water freight to and from Boston through the very direct line of Rock Hill lane and Woburn street northwestward. I cannot answer.Non nostrum ta
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Pine and Pasture Hills and the part they have Contributed to the development of Medford. (search)
place, on the pathway from Salem to Mistick ford and near to the future location of the bridge, that Governor Cradock's servants selected their dwelling-place. It was an ideal spot, there being no other location from Wilson's farm to the Wears, taking all things into consideration, that could compare with the surroundings of what is now the present square. (See map of Ten Hills farm made in 1637, also map supposed to have been made in 1633 and bearing legends in the handwriting of Governor John Winthrop, in Vol. I, No. 4, of the Medford Historical register.) No traces of the granite formation have been found east of Governors avenue. All the houses on the north side of High street were supplied with water from wells dug down into the white gravel deposit. Before proceeding to consider the changes that have taken place on the easterly and southerly side of the hill, let us put ourselves on the same position as did the writer of the article on the ancient ford. (See Vol. IV,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Tufts family residences. (search)
im of antiquity as Mr. Brooks in his enthusiasm for Medford's invaluable historical jewel made, and which pleasant fiction was all too readily accepted. But having made the assumption at the start, and next the assertion that it was so, he fixed the date at 1634, because there was clay thereabout, and bricks had been made in Salem a few years earlier. He says nothing about the lime of the mortar with which this brick house was built, but does elsewhere tell the authenticated story of Governor Winthrop's stone house across the river, that fell down only a few years before because of clay mortar used as no lime could be had. Another argument he makes in the query is, Who, in that day, could afford to build such a house but the rich London merchant? He was the only man then who had the funds to build such a house, which does not prove that he used his funds thus, or built such a house. It would be remarkable (could it be proven) that in 1634 the first house to be erected in Medfo
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Mythical Pageantry. (search)
Mythical Pageantry. Much has been said in recent months of the use of pageants in the teaching of local history. It may well be thus taught, but we still hold to the idea expressed by the late James A. Hervey in the words, If we are to be historical, let us tell the truth. If it is too bad to tell, better be silent, for it is difficult to unlearn even pleasant fiction. Three questions are pertinent, however:— 1. Did John Winthrop purchase Ten-hills farm of the Indians? If so, does any record of such purchase exist? 2. Was there any mob demonstration against the Royall house, either before or after Sir Isaac's departure? If so, what proof of it? 3. Did Washington ever visit that house in person? If so, when, and what proof thereof? By reference to the local press we find that the first two query subjects were thus portrayed in pageant by various actors. If this is correct, by all means let it be added to existing history, which heretofore has been silent thereab
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Medford's Metes and bounds. (search)
s boundary are nearly two-thirds of the corner bounds. Why this crooked line? and why this Somerville appendix that Medford so nearly encloses? The reason is that long ago Charlestown people had some cows, and this hill territory outside Governor Winthrop's farm was their cow commons or pasture land, as a mile back from the river northward was Charlestown wood lots. Well does the Boundaries of Medford say, Originally Medford was entirely surrounded by Charlestown. When in 1765 Medford wantn their holdings, and naturally preferred to stay in Charlestown bounds, and so were not annexed, and nearly a century later their territory became Somerville. One thing our perambulation has not revealed—the wigwam of Sagamore John that Governor Winthrop visited, but it was close by. Perhaps somebody's new house building may find trace of it. We have heard recent enquiry about corner nineteen. Only the engineers can now determine it, but it is eighty-five feet from the railway track.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford's disused subway. (search)
h we allude. It is illustrated by accurate drawings of the entire work, explanatory of the text of his record, and is now in the office of the Metropolitan Water Commission, by whose courtesy we were permitted to examine its interesting pages and compile this account. These engineers reached Walnut hill, the site of the distributing reservoir, on April 25, 1862, and it is interesting to note just here, that in their more than two-mile walk they passed near to no dwellings until reaching Winthrop, then called South street, where there was a house which was later the residence of Mr. J. W. Perkins. Seventeen houses, four of which were upon the Brooks estate, comprised all then west of and near the railway, and but three buildings housed Tufts College then. Contrast this open plain and hill-slope with existing conditions and population. On April 21 another party began a survey westward toward Wyman hill in West Cambridge, on which the reservoir would have been located had that rou
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford Hillside. (search)
constructed in 1863. One dwelling, the home of J. W. Perkins, had been built on Winthrop street west of the railroad a little earlier. C. C. Stevens came next in 1870, building his house on North street. No highway crossed the Mystic between Winthrop and Usherbridges till 1873, so when Mr. Stevens moved his barns from his former residence on Warren street in West Medford, they went via High street to Winthrop square, crossing the river and railway on the Winthrop street bridges, then down acnsformed into the Menotomy river. The Mystic and Powder House boulevards have been built, with Somerville field between. These are not a part of the Hillside but adjoin and affect it. It is an historic fact that the first Massachusetts governor, John Winthrop, got lost in the Charlestown woods that were on this hillside, and here spent a lonely night, waiting for daybreak. It is also said that Burgoyne's army from Saratoga cut off the trees from this same hillside during their winter stay in
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., An old-time Deed. (search)
An old-time Deed. Heirs of John Winthrop to Benanuel Bowers. About 4 acres of Marshland, Bounded, westerly by a line beginning at the mouth of a little creek and running from the said creek to a salt pond and from there to a stake down by the river side; and on all other sides by the Mistick river, together with a right of way through the farm to the highway. Feb. 22, 1670. Recorded in Book 8, Page 357, June 15, 1683. This is Labor-in-Vain point as it was before the canal or highway was cut through, making the point an island as it is at the present day. The little creek was that part of Two-penny brook through the salt marsh. The salt pond was in the line of the canal or highway. J. H. H.
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