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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
s almost deserved the sobriquet of ephemeral. At first they were kept in a central angle, or squadron, which meant district; the next improvement was to keep a third of the time in one extremity, a third in the opposite, and a third in the centre. Sometimes the money raised for the support of the school was divided according to the number of polls, and sometimes according to the number of children. The church and the school were, with our fathers, the alpha and omega of town policy. Oct. 5, 1730: Voted to build a new schoolhouse. Same day: Voted to set up a reading and writing school for six months. March 11, 1771: Voted to build the schoolhouse upon the land behind the meeting-house, on the north-west corner of the land. 1776: Voted that the master instruct girls two hours after the boys are dismissed. By a traditional blindness, we charitably presume it must have been, our early fathers did not see that females required and deserved instruction equally with males; we
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 9: public buildings. (search)
ing of the ladies, by presenting a copy of the Sacred Scriptures in two volumes. Second Congregational meeting-house, 1824. First parish meeting-house (Unitarian), 1839. Methodist meeting-house, 1844. Mystic church (Congregational), 1849. Grace church (Episcopal), 1860. Schoolhouses. Where the first schoolhouse stood is not known; but it was probably near the meeting-house, at the West End. The second was built according to the following order of the town, Oct. 5, 1730: Voted to build a new schoolhouse, twenty-four feet long, twenty feet wide, and ten feet stud, on town's land, by the meeting-house. It was near Marble Brook, on the north-west corner of the lot, upon the border of the road. The third schoolhouse stood very near the street, on land now owned by Samuel Train, Esq., about ten feet east of the house he now occupies; and, when that mansion-house was first repaired, the schoolhouse was moved, and now makes part of the rear of said dwelling