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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Pine and Pasture Hills and the part they have Contributed to the development of Medford. (search)
e gravelly beach must have extended as far as the square. It was on this slope of the hill, close to the water's edge, near the fording 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 nrowth of small flags; and there are persons now living (1855) whose fathers have told them, that wild ducks were shot in that pond. We will also see the path from Salem to Mistick ford trailing over the present Salem street, fording Gravelly creek, passing along the edge of the pond in the market-place or square, and winding aroune of the hill to the landing place of the ford. This is the path travelled by Ralph Sprague and his party (two of whom were his brothers Richard and William) from Salem through the wilderness to Mistick ford, in the summer of 1628（9). They found Mr. Cradock's servants occupying a farm called Mistick, that they had planted on the e
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Medford market-place made modern. (search)
ill 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 Salem and old Ship street, and more recently at the opposite corner of Forest street, in reducing the street corners to easy curves, may be there displayed. A similar opportunity will offer itself in the proposed widening of Riverside avenue. That being done, it will only remain for the city of Medford to cure what need not be endured, by the purchase of its neighbors' holdings on both sides of the ancient but much maligned City Hall, and erect on their sites a substantial municipal building such
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Tufts family residences. (search)
witnesses. (By this we mean for the existence of the house.) Fifth. Just where his business made it necessary. Is there any evidence that Mr. Cradock's business interests centered at that point, so far away from the trail or path leading from Salem to Boston, via the ford at Mystick and the bridge he later built? He then adds, The conclusion, therefore, is inevitable that Mr. Cradock built it. It would be inevitable if that particular house was surely there prior to 1652, but there is nal 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