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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Connecting link in Medford Church history. (search)
some two years there had been a neighborhood Sunday school, and from this effort for the children grew that of a public service for their elders. It is a matter of doubt if there are still any residents living who attended that first gathering in 1867. Mr. Brown must have had some data from which to make his statement, but he was not a resident in 1867. The present writer first attended its services on July 9, 1870, and thereafter was conversant with facts and writes from personal knowledge.1867. The present writer first attended its services on July 9, 1870, and thereafter was conversant with facts and writes from personal knowledge. He has already (some years since) given in our pages an account of that occasion in a paper on West Medford in 1870. The Union was a neighborhood affair which was expected in time to grow into a Protestant church of some order, or possibly a Union church, hence the appropriate name in some way adopted. It may be that sometime records that must have been kept may be found, and give more accurate information. We have been told that such were deposited in the office of the town clerk, but rece
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Scraps of paper. (search)
ute to Andover was agitated, resulting in the charter on June 15, 1805, of the Andover and Medford Turnpike. The corporators, according to the Brooks history, were Jonathan Porter, Joseph Hurd, Nathan Parker, Oliver Holden and Fitch Hall. The meager account we have of its construction and history shows it in marked contrast to the other. The former, with everything of material to be carted onto and sinking into the salt-marsh, continually needing repair, was maintained as a toll road till 1867. This latter (shortening the distance three miles and opening new territory for improvement in Medford), with plenty of the best material at hand for building and repair, was never a profitable investment, and as early as 1828 was offered for sale. No buyers appearing, it became, in 1831, a free road in all the towns wherein it was located. In Medford it became the beautiful Forest street. Just who were the first Board of Directors we may not say, very likely the gentlemen above named, the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., The mills on the Medford turnpike. (search)
d only be sawed by the old style up-and-down saw into boards and planks. The smaller and costlier ones of branch and burl were made into veneers by a circular saw some five feet in diameter. Its teeth were cut in steel plates, in segments a foot long and fastened by screws to the circumference of an iron disk at the end of an arbor. In this sawing of veneers as much valuable wood was wasted in sawdust as was obtained by the process. This led to the invention and building at Winchester, in 1867, of a machine that cut by knife process logs up to twelve feet long into veneers as thin as one hundred to the inch, wasting practically nothing. Just when this Medford mill ceased operation, or whether it ceased by limitation contained in the above agreement, we may not say with certainty. The Fire Department report says: Jan. 21, 1872. Mill building on Mystic Ave., supposed to be by incendiary. The building was a total loss. This account is written at some length, because neith
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Bogus history. (search)
istory of Medford in 1855, the name of Cradock was not attached to that house. But since the publication of the above quoted extract, we have found the following on page 144, Vol. 48, of New England Historical—Genealogical Register The oldest house in the country Is there any proof, above mere conjecture, that the Cradock house, so-called, in Medford, Mass., is the oldest in the country— or indeed that it was built by Gov. Cradock? If so, what and where is it? The above was in 1867, but there was no reply to it in any way that we know of, probably for the best of reasons, viz., there was no proof to be produced by any. And so the pleasant and plausible assumption was repeated over and over until it became commonly accepted. We have no thought that the historian had the least intent of writing a misleading, incorrect or bogus history, nor is the present writing to detract anything from the historic interest of the substantial old house, which stands preserved today b
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., History of the Medford High School. (search)
ck, from February 18, 1860, to September 1, 1861. Miss Emma J. Leonard, from September 1, 1861, to March 5, 1866. Miss Ellen M. Barr, from March 5, 1866, to July 1, 1875, and from September 1, 1876, to July 1, 1877. Edward A. Drew (Tufts, 1867), from December 2, 1867, to June 1, 1869. George C. Travis, Jr. (Harvard, 1869), from June 1, 1869, to April 1, 1872. Charles B. Saunders (Harvard, 1871), from April 1 to July 2, 1872. Minton Warren (Tufts, 1870), from September 2, 1872, line High School. He has recently been appointed Professor of German in Bowdoin College. Mr. Sanborn resigned in order to accept the mastership of the South Abington (now Whitman) High School, and is now a lawyer in St. Paul, Minn. Prior to 1867, the English department had so monopolized the teachers' attention that but little could be done in the classics by way of qualifying students for college. A good start in Latin was given and that was all. The Greek and the advanced Latin had to
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame (search)
n this romance came the war, in which the schoolmaster and law student became lieutenant in the 15th Massachusetts Light Artillery, and after the war, again teaching. With his red-lined army cape over his shoulders, the ex-lieutenant had applied for the principalship of the Lexington High School, and moved perhaps by the appearance of the handsome, ruddy-faced soldier as well as by his qualifications, the Lexington school board had accepted the applicant. And the Lexington school report of 1867 sounds the same note of enthusiastic self-congratulation at the close of the year. From Lexington he was called to Nantucket; next, to Stoneham, and finally, as the report puts it, the Stoneham High School was robbed of its accomplished principal, and the quarter-century's work in Medford was begun. There has been no source of information so valuable as that of the old school committee reports. From them one learns to respect anew the sense of civic responsibility, the sound scholarship
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
et. It had no windows, but big door openings in its ends. It was not a very old barn, perhaps thirty or forty years then. How it ever escaped the tornado of '51 or the incendiary fires of the years before the war always seemed a mystery. We utilized it for a shop and storehouse for two years, until it was taken down and a house built of its good material. High street is the old way to the weare, the road to Menotomy, which became West Cambridge in 1807, but took the name of Arlington in 1867. But until 1850 a portion of old Charlestown intervened between it and the river. In 1870 there were only five houses in that strip along the street and none on the Medford side, so there was an unobstructed view of the village and church spires of Arlington from the railway platform at West Medford. We saw a broad open plain, level at first, and sloping gradually to the river's edge, with but here and there a tree, beyond the pear trees left on the Smith garden plot. The Brooks estate
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., An early view of
Medford Square
. (search)
ruly, C. A. Whiting. This shaded drawing is nine by thirteen inches, and the names on its back (from left to right) are George Porter's storehouse, Gibson's, Coburn's and Hervey's stores, town hall, post-office, Winneck, postmaster, First Orthodox meeting-house, Dr. Swan's carriage, town pump, old Turell house. The last is incorrect, as the Turell residence was at Winthrop square. The Turell Tufts house, former home of the two doctors Simon Tufts, was at the corner of Forest street till 1867. The fact that Mr. Winneck was postmaster 1853-9 would place the making of this view of the old square, Medford, whose written title is reproduced, as between those dates. And now, after the changes of seventy-two years, the Medford post-office is in the same spot. The absence of the brick building east of the Seccomb house raises query as to time of its erection. Note the diminutive structure beyond the town house, and George Porter's storehouse beyond the town house's brick end. We thin
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28.,
Medford Square
in the early days. (search)
interest town officers and citizens in it, but with no success. They had no use for the plaything. One day Macy told him there was a fire up there and George rushed across Main street to the police station with the message, but it fell on incredulous ears—and there was nothing doing. About a half hour later Cunningham's omnibus came down on its regular trip, and the driver told people of the fire and inquired where the fire department was. The old Dr. Tufts residence was torn down in 1867, and in 1872 Dr. Weymouth built a substantial wooden building, with Tufts hall on the third floor. This, with the three-story brick Hall house and the modernly called City Hall annex, all gave way eight years ago to the socalled Medford building. This annex is worthy of more than passing notice. It was the home of Thomas Seccomb, built for him about 1750. In later years it was used as a tavern, and David Simpson was the popular landlord in more recent days. There used to be a covered por
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Additional Foreign News by the America. (search)
ur. Latest Markets. Liverpool, Saturday Evening, May 18.--The sales of cotton to-day reached 10,000 bales, of which 4,000 were taken by speculators and exporters — Market closed quiet. Breadstuffs quiet. Corn closed with a declining tendency, but no actual change in rates. The steamship which left to-day for Halifax and Boston took out £260,000 in specie. Have Cotton Market.--Cotton steady at a decline of 1fr; tres ordinaire 109; bas 103; sales of the week 12,500 bales. Stock in port 280,000 bales. American Securities.--Baring Bros. quote American securities firmer, with an improved demand. U. S. 6's, 1867-8, were offered at 80; U. S. 5's sold at 74; Pennsylvania 5's. 1877, 68@72; N. Y. Central Shares 67; N. Y. Central 7's 90@92; do 6's 86; Erie shares 22; do. 3d mortgage 74½ Illinois Central shares 38½discount. Financial.--The bullion in the Bank of England has decreased £49,000 since the last weekly return. The rates have been advanced to 6 perc
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