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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Quaint old records. (search)
inning of the world to this day £ 16, 16s, 6d. But ninety-one years later, when money was dollars, rum seems to have been current in Charlestown. Some one has styled it Everlasting Rum. Charlestown, April 6, 1793. This day Rec'd of Benj n Wright one Glass of Cherry Rum in full of all Demands from the beginning of the World to the end of the World I say Rec'd by Mr Nehemiah Wyman. It seems Mr. Reed's confidence was not misplaced, and the Wyman-Wright accounts effectually closed.inning of the world to this day £ 16, 16s, 6d. But ninety-one years later, when money was dollars, rum seems to have been current in Charlestown. Some one has styled it Everlasting Rum. Charlestown, April 6, 1793. This day Rec'd of Benj n Wright one Glass of Cherry Rum in full of all Demands from the beginning of the World to the end of the World I say Rec'd by Mr Nehemiah Wyman. It seems Mr. Reed's confidence was not misplaced, and the Wyman-Wright accounts effectually close
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Medford's water supply. (search)
entioned, to develop this as a reservoir. Medford developed it by raising the dam, so that the pond lay 140.66 feet above Medford's base, covering about 25 acres, and making a reservoir of about 80,000,000 gallons above a level 11 feet over the intake pipe. There are two branches called the east and the west arm, beside the branch that was dammed, which together constitute the head waters of Gravelly Creek. These two arms were also developed so that water might be pumped back, into either Wright's or Spot Pond during the months of excessive flow, for storage there until the dry season. A pumping station, built in 1895, between the branches of the brook, in connection with a steel standpipe erected the same year on a hill on the same property, gave the city a high service system with a pressure at the water office of 90 pounds per square inch. Every house in the city was thus given an adequate pressure as well as supply, after a new main had been laid to the square and the high l