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Middlesex Village (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
thus:— Sir Walter Scott has said, nothing is easier than to make a legend. We need not invent, but only repeat one of which the Old Mill is a subject. This clipping proved to be a reprint or copy of Chapter V of Fields and Mansions of Middlesex. （S. A. Drake, 1874.) Referring our readers to the above book we will only quote:— Except that the sides of the edifice are somewhat bulged out, which gives it a portly, aldermanic appearance, and that it shows a few fissures in its outwach fair in 1878, was A Legend of the Old Mill, by Mrs. L. B. Pillsbury,—in all thirty-two verses. That writer (unlike the former one) had the grace to append a footnote, thus:— Suggested by the facts given in Drake's Fields and Mansions of Middlesex. As the eviction of the Acadians from Grand Pre was in 1755, and the sale of the old mill to the province for a powder house in 1747, there is room for doubt of the legend. But the writer certainly followed Drake's prose in poetic form.
Walnut Hills, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e departure of the cattle market to Brighton this house remained in its decadence till during last year it was torn down and a big modern garage there erected. Equally lonely was the tract beyond Quarry hill till in 1869 the Boston & Lowell railroad laid its tracks from Somerville junction to its purchased Arlington and Lexington road. A little village called West Somerville began to grow around the railway station and extend itself compactly to Cambridge line and up onto both Spring and Walnut hills. In the late sixties a little chapel was built near the entrance to the old quarry. Removed toward Davis square for a time, it was brought back again, and later moved down and across Broadway, somewhat enlarged and used as a Union Chapel, till the erection last fall, just beside it in Medford territory, of the present creditable structure recently opened for public Assembly of the Brethren. But College avenue is not now without its houses of worship, as six have been there erected, the
Brighton, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
named two between Medford street and Menotomy river,—the Tufts house and that of Russell, far away on the western slope of Walnut hill. So the old mill and powder house stood in lonesomeness when the Somerville House was destroyed by fire, leaving its massive chimneys as gaunt reminders. Across the railroad track in Medford was erected the Willow bridge house, which accommodated the drovers and cattlemen who came down from the north weekly. After the departure of the cattle market to Brighton this house remained in its decadence till during last year it was torn down and a big modern garage there erected. Equally lonely was the tract beyond Quarry hill till in 1869 the Boston & Lowell railroad laid its tracks from Somerville junction to its purchased Arlington and Lexington road. A little village called West Somerville began to grow around the railway station and extend itself compactly to Cambridge line and up onto both Spring and Walnut hills. In the late sixties a little ch
Huguenot (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
their lives between. What truth do we garner, what moral glean, From this traditive tale of the tower so gray? Was it chance, the grasp of that reckless hand? Or, was that wild clutch of the fatal band An act of retributive wrath foreseen? Was the old mill an avenger of wrong that day? Who shall answer the question, yea or nay? In Historic Leaves (published by Somerville Historical Society) in 1903, Florence Carr has an interesting article of six pages on the Mallet family, tracing its Huguenot origin and its connection with the old mill. Mrs. L. F. A. Maulsby also gives in a Somerville souvenir a brief account illustrated by a cut of the old mill with its sails and the long inclined beam with the wheel at its end, upon the ground. The old gravestone of John Mallet in Zzz. Charlestown cemetery is also shown. We commend a reading of these which are in the Society's library. This ancient structure was probably built very soon after John Mallet's purchase of the site in 1703-
Union Chapel (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
l railroad laid its tracks from Somerville junction to its purchased Arlington and Lexington road. A little village called West Somerville began to grow around the railway station and extend itself compactly to Cambridge line and up onto both Spring and Walnut hills. In the late sixties a little chapel was built near the entrance to the old quarry. Removed toward Davis square for a time, it was brought back again, and later moved down and across Broadway, somewhat enlarged and used as a Union Chapel, till the erection last fall, just beside it in Medford territory, of the present creditable structure recently opened for public Assembly of the Brethren. But College avenue is not now without its houses of worship, as six have been there erected, the latest being of stone with its parish house styled the House beside the Road. College avenue has been extended across the Sorrelly plain and famous Two-penny brook into Medford over the Southern division of the railroad by the once famous
Mystick River (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
nhabitants of Medford carried their grain there. Before the Revolution the mill was converted into a powder house and has been used as such to our day. Just what he meant by our day does not appear. Mr. Usher added no information and little mention has ever been made of it in the Register, which now for almost the first time varies from its course of Medford almost exclusively. It is well to remember that until 1754, Medford was a small town lying four miles along but one side of Mystic river. We have always had a curiosity (which probably will never be entirely satisfied) as to why our boundary line beside old Charlestown was made so remarkably crooked, and right here we may well recall that a piece of the middle of Charlestown was cut out and incorporated as Somerville in 1842. The newspaper clipping referred to closed thus:— Sir Walter Scott has said, nothing is easier than to make a legend. We need not invent, but only repeat one of which the Old Mill is a subject
Mystic Valley (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
extended across the Sorrelly plain and famous Two-penny brook into Medford over the Southern division of the railroad by the once famous Stearns estate and Royall house and ends at Cradock schoolhouse on Summer street. Warner street is the Somerville end of Medford's Harvard street and just over the line in Medford is St. Clement's church, parochial residence and school. Powder House boulevard has also been constructed beside the college area, and over and around the hill to where Mystic valley parkway crosses the Menotomy river. The new West Somerville has grown till it so completely adjoins Medford hillside that the city boundary is difficult to find today even by some of Somerville's officials. Drake wrote, the old stone tower had three stages or lofts, with oaken beams of great thickness, and strange that edifice created to sustain life should become the receptacle of such a death dealing substance as powder. There came another turn in the cycle of events. In the sev
St. Clement's church (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
hout its houses of worship, as six have been there erected, the latest being of stone with its parish house styled the House beside the Road. College avenue has been extended across the Sorrelly plain and famous Two-penny brook into Medford over the Southern division of the railroad by the once famous Stearns estate and Royall house and ends at Cradock schoolhouse on Summer street. Warner street is the Somerville end of Medford's Harvard street and just over the line in Medford is St. Clement's church, parochial residence and school. Powder House boulevard has also been constructed beside the college area, and over and around the hill to where Mystic valley parkway crosses the Menotomy river. The new West Somerville has grown till it so completely adjoins Medford hillside that the city boundary is difficult to find today even by some of Somerville's officials. Drake wrote, the old stone tower had three stages or lofts, with oaken beams of great thickness, and strange that e
Broadway (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Quarry hill till in 1869 the Boston & Lowell railroad laid its tracks from Somerville junction to its purchased Arlington and Lexington road. A little village called West Somerville began to grow around the railway station and extend itself compactly to Cambridge line and up onto both Spring and Walnut hills. In the late sixties a little chapel was built near the entrance to the old quarry. Removed toward Davis square for a time, it was brought back again, and later moved down and across Broadway, somewhat enlarged and used as a Union Chapel, till the erection last fall, just beside it in Medford territory, of the present creditable structure recently opened for public Assembly of the Brethren. But College avenue is not now without its houses of worship, as six have been there erected, the latest being of stone with its parish house styled the House beside the Road. College avenue has been extended across the Sorrelly plain and famous Two-penny brook into Medford over the Southern
Frederick Brooks (search for this): chapter 2
The old powder house. Among the recent accessions of our Society's library we find a newspaper clipping entitled The Old Wayside Mill. It bears no date and is evidently from some local paper of over thirty years ago. It describes a structure well known to Medford people by sight, but not within our city's bounds. Historian Brooks (in 1855) alluded to it thus:— When the circular stone windmill, now standing on Quarry hill in Somerville, was built, the inhabitants of Medford carried their grain there. Before the Revolution the mill was converted into a powder house and has been used as such to our day. Just what he meant by our day does not appear. Mr. Usher added no information and little mention has ever been made of it in the Register, which now for almost the first time varies from its course of Medford almost exclusively. It is well to remember that until 1754, Medford was a small town lying four miles along but one side of Mystic river. We have always had a c
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