e fashionable lady in her morning promenade, and the weary animals in their noonday labor.
Streets in Medford have received the following names: High, Main, Forest, Salem, Ashland, Oakland, Washington, Fountain, Fulton, Court, Cross, Park, Pleasant, Purchase, South, Middlesex, Water, Ship, Canal, Cherry, Webster, Almont, Cottage, Ash, Oak, Chestnut, Grove, Garden, Paris, Chaplin, Mystic, Brooks, Allston, Vernon, Irving, Auburn, Prescott, West, Laurel.
Appropriation for highways from Feb. 1, 1850, to Feb. 1, 1851$1,500.00
Appropriation for highways from Feb. 15, 1854, to Feb. 15, 1855$1,800.00
Expenses of street lamps for the same times$323.75
Bridges.
The bridge across Mystic River, in the centre of Medford, is the first that was built over this stream.
This primitive structure was exceedingly rude, and dangerously frail.
March 4, 1634: The General Court, holden at Newton, make a grant of much land in Medford, on the north side of Mystic River, to Mr. Mathew Cradock,