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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22.. Search the whole document.
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Charles (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 20
Mystic River (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
Why Aberjona?
By Sylvester Baxter, a member of, and by permission of, the Maiden Historical Society.
In looking up some data in early local history I have just come across something that seems to throw a light upon one of our old geographical names whose origin has always puzzled me and which, so far as I know, appears to be unknown.
The Mystic river—which geologically has a peculiar interest as having in the preglacial period actually been the Merrimac, carrying the greater stream by a short cut from near Lowell to Massachusetts Bay—has, since the first settlements, borne two names in different parts of its course, although the entire valley has been known as that of the Mystic.
From its confluence with the Charles, near the Navy Yard, up through its tidal reaches, or what were tidal until the building of the dam and locks at Medford, up to the Mystic Lakes, it has been called the Mystic.
Above the lakes, from Wilmington down through Woburn and Winchester, it appears to ha
Lowell (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
Massachusetts Bay (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
Charlestown, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
Sylvester Baxter (search for this): chapter 20
Why Aberjona?
By Sylvester Baxter, a member of, and by permission of, the Maiden Historical Society.
In looking up some data in early local history I have just come across something that seems to throw a light upon one of our old geographical names whose origin has always puzzled me and which, so far as I know, appears to be unknown.
The Mystic river—which geologically has a peculiar interest as having in the preglacial period actually been the Merrimac, carrying the greater stream by a short cut from near Lowell to Massachusetts Bay—has, since the first settlements, borne two names in different parts of its course, although the entire valley has been known as that of the Mystic.
From its confluence with the Charles, near the Navy Yard, up through its tidal reaches, or what were tidal until the building of the dam and locks at Medford, up to the Mystic Lakes, it has been called the Mystic.
Above the lakes, from Wilmington down through Woburn and Winchester, it appears to ha
Indians (search for this): chapter 20
Cradock (search for this): chapter 20