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Harriet A. Adams (search for this): chapter 5
Neighborhood Sketch no. 7.
Winter Hill By Harriet A. Adams.
commencing with Joseph Adams, farmer, on the righthand side, facing down at the top of Winter Hill, was the old Adams house, sometimes called the Magoun house.
In 1840, and for many years afterwards, the nearest house was that of Abby and Edmund Tufts, on the lower corner of Broadway and Central street.
Mr. Tufts was a printer, and got out the first directory of Somerville.
The next house, that of Chester Adams, was afterward moved to the foot of Winter Hill.
Mr. Adams drove down to the bank in Charlestown every morning.
There was no regular public conveyance to the city, but a stage ran from Charlestown to Medford, sometimes on Medford Turnpike, and sometimes on Main street (Broadway), which would occasionally pick up a passenger on the highway.
The next house was on the lower corner of Main and School streets, owned and occupied by Asa Tufts, a farmer, whose family consisted of a wife and four children.
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Edward Everett (search for this): chapter 5
Chester Adams (search for this): chapter 5
1840 AD (search for this): chapter 5
Neighborhood Sketch no. 7.
Winter Hill By Harriet A. Adams.
commencing with Joseph Adams, farmer, on the righthand side, facing down at the top of Winter Hill, was the old Adams house, sometimes called the Magoun house.
In 1840, and for many years afterwards, the nearest house was that of Abby and Edmund Tufts, on the lower corner of Broadway and Central street.
Mr. Tufts was a printer, and got out the first directory of Somerville.
The next house, that of Chester Adams, was afterwar seen passing to and fro in summer, while in winter the canal was the resort of skaters from quite a distance.
What stagnation in business must have ensued when navigation was suspended on that great highway of commerce!
There were no houses in 1840 between Walnut and Cross streets.
Zzz These crossways were not then called streets, but were styled lanes.
Thus Cross street was known as Three Pole Lane.
There was a very old house with a sloping roof on the corner of Main street and Three
August, 1834 AD (search for this): chapter 5