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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The delta, 1822—Bennett delta, 1924. (search)
with the historic significance of the place. One noteworthy incident, however, he did not mention. Captain Myles Standish with eight of his valorous army led by their Indian guide came here, to the house of Nanepashemit, wherein being dead he lay buried on September 21, 1621. This was the first white man's coming ere Medford began. And another: that just across the street, facing Woburn road was the house of Golden Moore, purchased by Thomas Brooks in 1660, and occupied by his son, Caleb Brooks, on his coming to Medford in 1679, and torn down by his grandson Samuel, just a century later. It was the wish of Peter Chardon Brooks that the estate should remain in the family as long as possible. Not until 1909 was any portion of the Brooks estate (west of the railroad) sold. Then came the erection of numerous houses by the West Medford Real Estate Trust and others, after a resident occupancy of the Brooks families of two hundred and thirty years. And now, in these recent weeks h