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Across the brook which flowed through the lawn in front of the house he erected a beautifully proportioned bridge of three arches, made of Chelmsford white stone, which added greatly to the beauty of the place: but owing to some trouble with the town concerning it, it was afterwards removed.
Sixty years ago there was a deer park on the south side of Beaver Street opposite Forest Street, and from the bridge a road extended through the grounds across the present Linden Street to the back road, in the direction of Quince Street. Our views convey but a faint idea of the picturesqueness of the scenery in these attractive grounds.
On the east side of Pleasant Street was the parsonage of Warham Williams, probably erected soon after his settlement over the church in 1723.
After his death his widow and son, Dr. Leonard Williams, occupied it. The latter died in 1799, and Mr. Lyman purchased the estate.
The frame of the old house afterwards was used in the ‘Maxwell House’ in Main Street, already mentioned.
Rev. Dr. Cushing's parsonage was also on Pleasant Street, and still remains.
The house is probably 120 years old. It was sold by the daughter of Dr. Cushing to Henry Timmins, who improved it, and it afterwards came into the possession of Mr. James Ellison.
It was modelled after the house of Mr. Samuel Harrington, on South Street, who made the estimate for the lumber required so closely, that Dr. Cushing used to say that, ‘there was not enough left to build his two bee hives.’
The Poor House of 1750 was a small house owned by Samuel Garfield, located at what was called ‘Hell's Mouth,’ up among the hills between Stony Brook Mills, at the end of Weston Street, and Mr. Amasa Harrington's on South Street. It was taken down and removed to the land of Jacob Gale (now Banks's), opposite the junction of South and Weston Streets.
Jacob Garfield afterwards bought it and used it as a carpenter's shop for a while, and then converted it into a residence.
Newton Street was voted March 3, 1755, upon the petition of Steven White and others, to run from the Main Road to the river, crossing Beaver Brook near the river by a bridge.
In 1759 some
Thomas Lewis, Landscape Photographs, 1879.
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