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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., Wood's dam and the mill beyond the Mystic. (search)
d W—d, While there is boats and boating. Fiat justitia rust [?] coelum! In one of the later years the well-known author, Mr. John T. Trowbridge, was strolling that way and, noticing the quaint picture the shady nooks about the mill presented, entered and conversed a while with Mr. Wood, who told him something of the troubles he had experienced with the boating fraternity. As, years afterward, Mr. Trowbridge told the present writer, he saw there was material in it for a story. The Tinkham Brothers' Tide-mill was the result of his observation, first in Our Young Folks, and later in book form. A copy was in our Public Library, but has been worn out by the boys and girls of Medford, and is no longer in circulation. While the author said the book was almost wholly fiction, yet the physical features he described were correct in every detail. Medford was disguised as Dempford, and Arlington as Tamoset, but he anticipated journalism in both towns. On November 10, 1879 (seve