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Terrace (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
e hill and the river. Query: How wide was that shelf, and what was the color of that gravel? How far was the crest from the river? How many feet higher than the present surface of High street was the then surface of the ground? Mr. Hooper points out (p. 2) that the tide used to flow into Medford square, and that the bridge used to be twice its present length. So extensive filling was requisite, and from whence? Obviously from Pasture hill alone. Probably not by long haul from the Terrace road region, but it should come by short haul from the south Bastion from the Tract, which developed slowly into High street and its vicinity. Much filling was also placed at some unknown period or periods along the gravelly beach and so on to Main street, and retaining walls built. Query: Who built the long retaining wall and when and where did its stone come from? The varge-way would be of little use if it did not at least rise above high-water mark. If the height of removable grave
Mount Auburn (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
(15 Register, p. 65.) Mr. Magoun built his street wall in front of the Library (A. D. 18—) of Medford dark granite. (15 Register, p. 14, says Mr. Brooks built street walls of dark Medford granite.) Was the supply limited? Query: Was there ever a stone-cutting establishment in Medford? Was the retaining wall built of Medford dark granite? Medford red gravel was very popular. To say nothing of Med ford gardens, I saw it in many a Cambridge garden in 1845. It was on the pathways of Mount Auburn, and years earlier on the walks of Boston Common. It rolled hard and firm, did not tend to mud, had no weed seeds, and its color was fine. The Boston Transcript of July 13, 1870, says that Colonel Royall, shortly before 1739, made his stately garden walks at the Royall farm of gravel imported from England. I cannot quite believe this story. The colonel, though the father of a Tory, was no fool, and he must have seen the handsome and excellent red gravel of Medford a good while before
Schaghticoke (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
on the north, and to cow barn northeast opening to Governor's lane. K—Eben Hall house (Mrs. Thomas S. Harlow) was a large three-story city house with, I think, brick ends. Built A. D.——. An absurd little back yard, mostly perpendicular; steps up to a part. Title too shoal to permit excavation very much northward. L—Isaac Hall house, built A. D.——. Three-story, back premises like K. Samuel Buell lived here about——. I knew his daughter Charlotte. She married and went to live in Schaghticoke, N. Y., near Troy. Dark granite and red gravel. These always came together. When red gravel appeared it was certain that dark granite was or had been in the same quarry. In fact the former was not a gravel at all, but disintegrated granite. This granite had so much iron in it that its oxidation colored everything. It was handsomer than Quincy stone. It would appear in great masses, some unchanged by rust, others hard as ever but colored like the gravel. The final form wa
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
re for central administration of the governor's property, and on the nearest site to the only ford which offered sufficient level space. There was no retaining wall nor filling at the river; all was normal, unchanged by man. The gazer saw west-bound travelers passing along the narrow path on the verge just above high-water mark and then climbing the steep in front of the library lot, and east bound ones going along the gravel beach to the Cradock buildings. This was a varge-way, just as New England country folks call it now. This glimpse into initial Medford reveals a shelf only between the great south bastion of Pasture hill and the river. Query: How wide was that shelf, and what was the color of that gravel? How far was the crest from the river? How many feet higher than the present surface of High street was the then surface of the ground? Mr. Hooper points out (p. 2) that the tide used to flow into Medford square, and that the bridge used to be twice its present lengt
Medford (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
te an account of it? Entitle it, Reminiscences from a baby carriage ? A great many people have undoubtedly forgotten that sculptured likenesses ever existed on those premises. I remember, he added, a twinkle in his eye, that I happened to see those very statues carried off on a hay-wagon one day. The way in which he told these incidents was indeed most amusing. In accordance with his suggestion, I wrote him the following letter:— Editor of the Register: Medford-by-the-Mystic, Massachusetts. honored Sir:— It pleases me, truly, to reply to your communication of the eleventh of this month. In effect, I esteem it a great privilege to be acquainted with you, both through our interesting conversation of a fortnight ago, and the missive which I have at hand, this present moment. Methinks, Sir, in regard to your request, that such an exquisite conveyance as a baby-carriage is not of too remote an age to be considered in this note. However, I do not deem it of suffi
Rock Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
called attention to the absence of buildings between the old house of Jonathan Wade and Parson Turell's (at our Winthrop square) for a century after Medford's settlement. We can but wish that Miles Standish had left us some account of fording the river and walking along that narrow shelving beach, the verge just above high-water mark and following the trail up the steep in front of the library lot on the occasion of his visit in September, 1621. Those of us who remember the vicinity of Rock hill ere the river was moved southward and the parkway built can readily get an idea of the great south bastion of Pasture hill, with only the varge-way between it and the river. There are various queries in the notes that require a lot of study to answer, but this we have from the city engineer:— High street at Governors avenue is twenty-five feet above Boston base (about eighteen above the normal level of present river at Armory bridge), and the bend in Grand View avenue, rear of Hist
Pasture Hill (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
a shelf only between the great south bastion of Pasture hill and the river. Query: How wide was that shelf was requisite, and from whence? Obviously from Pasture hill alone. Probably not by long haul from the Terralas and bungalows. The Halls owned the whole of Pasture hill, but never dreamed of living up there; they leftch before he could excavate his homestead out of Pasture hill. So all the Halls—Isaac, Ebenezer, Richard, etc that the gravel excavations on the east side of Pasture hill (about Terrace road) were later affairs than thoted out so clearly the barrier the cliffs of old Pasture hill placed in the way of travel as has Mr. Stetson, adily get an idea of the great south bastion of Pasture hill, with only the varge-way between it and the rive saying a man had to get rich, etc., to excavate Pasture hill. Steam shovels and dynamite were unknown in tho certainly dug away much of the great bastion of Pasture hill, the crest of which at Summit road is one hundre
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
sses, some unchanged by rust, others hard as ever but colored like the gravel. The final form was the so-called red gravel. This stone was in demand. Mr. Joseph Grinnell built a house of it in New Bedford in 1830, and told me it came round Cape Cod in a schooner. Many gravestones, too, were made of it. Perhaps a search in Boston might find it in some house fronts. There are some puzzles, however. Why did Mr. Peter C. Brooks, in 1820, build his arch over the canal of stone from Concord, N. H.? （15 Register, p. 31.) He covered that arch and all the promenade from his mansion to the lake with Medford red gravel. Why did the Halls, who owned both quarries, build (1786) those steps behind the Dudley Hall house of granite from Tyngsboro? (15 Register, p. 65.) Mr. Magoun built his street wall in front of the Library (A. D. 18—) of Medford dark granite. (15 Register, p. 14, says Mr. Brooks built street walls of dark Medford granite.) Was the supply limited? Query: Was there ever a
Mystic, Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
se building will help us here. We may assume that the street and lots had about reached finality when the houses were built, and conversely that as soon as street and lots were fit, houses would be built here. The excavations abreast of the tan-yard and at and about the Hall houses, etc., carried the crest further back and changed the contour of nature. I hope our gazer on the crest measured and noted how far it was in 1630 from the gravel beach. The record of a county road from Mystic bridge to Woburn (2 Register, p. 56) was probably without validity. Mr. Hooper says it is impossible to tell from the descriptions where this way was located. Even if it was possible, April 7, 1674, to tell in a general way, it ought to be definite in order to condemn land for a public easement. Besides, it does not say how wide the easement was to be. We must conclude that High street owed its existence to our potato cart and its successors, and not to the County of Middlesex. I am satis
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
great masses, some unchanged by rust, others hard as ever but colored like the gravel. The final form was the so-called red gravel. This stone was in demand. Mr. Joseph Grinnell built a house of it in New Bedford in 1830, and told me it came round Cape Cod in a schooner. Many gravestones, too, were made of it. Perhaps a search in Boston might find it in some house fronts. There are some puzzles, however. Why did Mr. Peter C. Brooks, in 1820, build his arch over the canal of stone from Concord, N. H.? （15 Register, p. 31.) He covered that arch and all the promenade from his mansion to the lake with Medford red gravel. Why did the Halls, who owned both quarries, build (1786) those steps behind the Dudley Hall house of granite from Tyngsboro? (15 Register, p. 65.) Mr. Magoun built his street wall in front of the Library (A. D. 18—) of Medford dark granite. (15 Register, p. 14, says Mr. Brooks built street walls of dark Medford granite.) Was the supply limited? Query: Was there
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