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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
grade across where in Medford's earliest days was Markham's clay land. We found no such clay pits as those at South Medford and Glenwood, but enormous quantities of bricks must have been made in those long-ago days from the deep excavation made from the river and between Myrtle street and Boston avenue where was the high embankment of the canal. In 1870 the canal aqueduct, a picturesque ruin, still spanned the river, and five years before was the subject of a sketch and oil painting by Nathan Brown of Brooks street. See Register, Vol. VII, No. 1, Frontispiece. Rebuilt in 1827 upon three new granite piers, it was an invitation for a new street to Tufts College 3/4 mile to cross upon it. In the autumn of 1870, the County Commissioners were petitioned to lay out such a street, sixty feet wide, as Boston avenue. The operations of the land company were not too heartily welcomed by a few on the other side the track, and some opposition was made to this, but the Commissioners laid o