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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
he had no sky or other camera to preserve the view as it looked fifty-five years ago, and he has an earlier remembrance of it, in fact, the time when the gilded letters of Mystic Hall Seminary first appeared on the front of that building in 1854. In May of 1870, several gentlemen purchased the socalled Smith Estate, from its trustees, and had it surveyed into house lots and instituted a land sale. They were Dr. A. B. Story of Manchester, N. H., Samuel S. Holton and J. B. Judkins of Winchester, Mass. Expecting to reside in Winchester, the writer was then preparing a modest little home there, when he was engaged to the service of this land company (as people styled these purchasers) as their superintendent on the ground. He alighted from the 6.15 A. M. train on the morning of May 27 and begun his duties. The railway station was a small wooden structure, with widely overhanging roof (a counterpart of that at Winchester), had been in use for fifteen years, and stood closely in