On Marm Simonds hill.
The second meetinghouse of
Medford was built two centuries ago. Its story is preserved, with a view, in the Register, Vol.
VII, No. 4, by
F. H. C. Woolley.
One of its door-stones has for many years laid at the basement ‘side-door’ entrance of 279 High street (site of the
first meetinghouse), residence of
Robert J. Long.
Among notes regarding the meetinghouses, collected by
Mr. L. L. Dame, and furnished by
Mrs. Ruth (
Dame)
Coolidge, is the following, which confirms the story we have previously heard:—
. . . I have always understood that the semi-circular stone step at the side door of my house is the original step at entrance of the early ‘Second Church.’
Old
Mr. Noah Johnson, who knew the locality well, often spoke of it.
[
Signed]
Mr. Hillman formerly lived at 279 High street.
Mr. Johnson's home was backward at end of High street court, now that of
Frederic Whitman.
In 1870
Mr. Johnson's son-in-law,
Milton F. Roberts (recently deceased), erected his dwelling at the corner of High street and court, the only new one between the brook and Woburn street in over a half century.
