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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
that house looked to us as we saw it from Goat Acre just after its erection—a speck in that wide, open plain. Another survey was made with new streets and smaller lots in the western corner, which found readier purchasers at a second sale in August. Next, another like survey was made in the southern corner, and the location of Riverside avenue changed to a lower 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 inv