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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., A pioneer railroad and how it was built. (search)
id character and built accordingly. They doubtless thought to profit by the experience of the canal people, who built most of its locks and all its aqueducts at first with wood, and later replaced with stone, as the wood decayed. The railway track in order to be substantial and require little repair, was laid on ties of split granite. These were brought down from Tyngsborough on the Merrimack and through the canal on the canal boats, and delivered at convenient points along the line. Professor Dame in his article upon the canal alluded to this, styling it a case of a corporation assisting in the preparation of its own obsequies. It did so and more, as will be seen later. There are still many persons who remember these stone sleepers which have been entirely removed for thirty-five years. There are very few people, however, that are aware of the construction beneath, which still lies buried there. Beneath each rail of the outward track (which was the first one built) was laid a
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., Marm Betty. (search)
Marm Betty. A beloved teacher in ancient Medford. The recent dedication of Medford's newest school building, named in honor of Lorin Low Dame, suggests a contrast between the Dame School of today and the dames' schools of a time long past. It seems fitting to make mention and do tardy justice to the memory of one of those vestal dames, whom it would not be profanation to call sacred, who never seemed young to their pupils and who with fidelity administered kisses, alphabet and birch. Motherly care, useful knowledge, salutary discipline, and all for nine pence paid each Monday morning, was thus dispensed to the Medford youngsters under the age of seven years, till as late as 1813. In mention of these, historian Brooks said: Our town rejoiced in a Marm Betty ; but of her, nothing more, which seems to have been a singular omission. The story of Marm Betty harks back to the ancient mansion across the Mystic, now known as the Royall House, then in Charlestown; and to colo