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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
pal) and the West Medford Congregational Churches were organized, and in ‘73 erected their houses of worship, the latter completed and dedicated late in ‘74. These two church buildings were the first structures to be erected on the two plots of land between the railroad and Boston avenue. The next was the four-story brick block on Harvard avenue in ‘75. This was begun by J. C. McNeil in the summer. He failed to complete it and the land owners had to take it over and finish it. Then Lewis H. Lovering opened a meat and provision store in November, and George Spaulding a grocery in it. Six five-room tenements were above the stores, but slow in occupancy. The land company had in ‘72 added to its holdings and also burdens, by purchase of the Osgood estate at the Hillside, and had sold some twenty-five lots to a number of men styled the Quincy Associates, but six of whom erected houses on Adams street. By 1875 very little building was in progress and times were very hard. Not til