Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18.. You can also browse the collection for Joseph Wyatt or search for Joseph Wyatt in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Harriet W. Brown. (search)
the railway, was a noble specimen. On the opposite side was first a triangular lot, vacant except for a small one-story brown building, in which had been a little store and the post office, but at this time not in use. Beyond this, where the post office now is, was a dwelling-house that may have been built early in the century. It had evidently seen better days. It was occupied by John C. Hatch, who two years later built and moved to a new house on the hill. Next was the home of Capt. Joseph Wyatt. This was a white cottage, standing with end toward the street, and with three entrance doors, and apple trees in the front yard. This house had been unroofed by the tornado, and in his repair the captain had put a pitched roof over the whole house, instead of over the front with a lean-to, as those old sloping roofs were styled. The captain was a nonagenarian in ‘70, and with his white locks and long staff, that he grasped below its top, was a noticeable figure on the village stree