Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29.

[p. 15] and cattlemen who came down from the north weekly. After the departure of the cattle market to Brighton this house remained in its decadence till during last year it was torn down and a big modern garage there erected. Equally lonely was the tract beyond Quarry hill till in 1869 the Boston & Lowell railroad laid its tracks from Somerville junction to its purchased Arlington and Lexington road. A little village called West Somerville began to grow around the railway station and extend itself compactly to Cambridge line and up onto both Spring and Walnut hills. In the late sixties a little chapel was built near the entrance to the old quarry. Removed toward Davis square for a time, it was brought back again, and later moved down and across Broadway, somewhat enlarged and used as a ‘Union Chapel,’ till the erection last fall, just beside it in Medford territory, of the present creditable structure recently opened for public ‘Assembly of the Brethren.’ But College avenue is not now without its houses of worship, as six have been there erected, the latest being of stone with its parish house styled ‘the House beside the Road.’ College avenue has been extended across the Sorrelly plain and famous Two-penny brook into Medford over the Southern division of the railroad by the once famous Stearns estate and Royall house and ends at Cradock schoolhouse on Summer street.

Warner street is the Somerville end of Medford's Harvard street and just over the line in Medford is St. Clement's church, parochial residence and school.

Powder House boulevard has also been constructed beside the college area, and over and around the hill to where Mystic valley parkway crosses the Menotomy river. The new West Somerville has grown till it so completely adjoins Medford hillside that the city boundary is difficult to find today even by some of Somerville's officials.

Drake wrote, the old stone tower ‘had three stages or lofts, with oaken beams of great thickness,’ and ‘strange ’