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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28.,
Medford Square
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le. Opposite that ford the hill rose abruptly high with only a narrow passage at its foot along the river's edge. A former Medford man in writing of his native town said, referring to the eastern and western parts, Medford was a spectacle town, a bulky red nose stuck up between the glasses. The surface of that nose was dark red gravel but the bones behind it are the darker Medford granite which shows now so plainly up Governors avenue. The earliest white men to come here were Captain Myles Standish and eight others from the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth on September 21, 1621, and it was said they liked here so well that they wished they had been settled here. In 1629 came an exploring party overland from Salem, then but just settled, and found established here a company of men who were in the employ of one Matthew Cradock, a wealthy London merchant. They had erected some log houses for shelter, and were building a small vessel for their fishing. Their work was a business