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Medford market-place made modern.
A half century ago the ancient home of Dr. Tufts and that across Forest street, where was once the Cotting bakery, were standing, and the town pump in working order.
Spot pond water came later with the stone water trough now gone.
The railway station and some store fronts have been changed a little, the Bigelow building and Tufts hall have replaced those named.
Otherwise the surroundings of the old Medford market-place are the same today.
The near future will witness a marked change; indeed it has already begun.
The Withington bakery, for several years disused, has been demolished and a theater and business block is there building.
Tufts hall, built by Dr. Weymouth in ‘72, the brick building adjoining and the Seccomb house of 1756 (recently known as the City Hall Annex) have all been sold and are all to be removed and a modern business building erected.
It is to be hoped that the good taste manifested so long ago by the builders between
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., An insular but mythical dueling ground. (search)
An insular but mythical dueling ground.
The latest query the editor has received is about the insular dueling ground at Spot pond (and perhaps not in Medford bounds), and of the monument on the island.
We have never seen this but once, on the occasion of a Sunday-school picnic, and were then told its story.
On such occasions, stories told should be truthful.
As we recollect it, the monument was about two and a half feet high, and had an inscription of a few words.
Whether this was painted or cut in the wood or stone we cannot now say with surety, as the time is forty-one years agone.
Recently the story has come to us in different form.
There is a woman in the case; i.e., some woman tells our new informant.
She was evidently impressed with the horrible details she had heard—that in bygone days, when gentlemen settled their affairs of honor by the code duello, that there in that lonely spot, two men met in mortal combat, and at the distance of certain paces, with deadly weap
Medford mile-stones.
We have heard of but few such.
Two were on the Andover turnpike, now Forest street and Fellsway.
Who knows if any were placed on the Medford turnpike, now Mystic avenue?
We were recently called to view one of these, on the easterly side of the way near Spot Pond.
It is of dark stone, like Medford granite, with one smooth face, and near its top is painted, in dark color, M. 2 ms.
Its location proved to be the second mile from Medford square.
Mr. Arthur Rice of Stoneham became interested in its preservation and offered to pay the expense of moving backward if needful.
The park commissioners have decided that it may remain in its original position.
We are informed that the same gentleman secured the preservation of the fourth mile-post near Marble street in Stoneham, and will replace the third, which the Stoneham highwaymen (i.e., the workmen on the highway), removed and built into a culvert some years since.
It would be eminently fitting if the f