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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Shepherd Brooks. (search)
9, soon after that new form of membership was instituted by the society in order to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims by the establishment of a Pilgrim Tercentenary Memorial Fund for the benefit of the Society, and the following memoir of him appeared in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 77, pp. lxv-lxvii (supplement to the issue of April, 1923) and is reprinted here by permission. Shepherd Brooks, A. M., of Boston and Medford, Mass., a Pilgrim Tercentenary member since 1919, was born in Baltimore, Md., where his parents, Gorham and Ellen (Shepherd) Brooks of Boston and Medford, were temporarily residing, 23 July 1837, and died in Boston 21 February 1922. He was a member of an illustrious Massachusetts family, of which the immigrant ancestor was Thomas Brooks, an early settler of Watertown, who was admitted a freeman 7 December 1636 and soon afterwards removed to Concord, where he was constable in 1638 and later d
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
st this station was known as Medford Gates, and the next one, appropriately, as Med- ford Steps. Two houses securely fenced in, faced High street, in which these men lived. Beyond them lay the extensive lands of the Brooks families, extending to Mystic lakes and over the hill and beyond the railroad to Oak Grove cemetery and into Winchester. On the left of High street was the greenhouse of Florist John Duane and his house, whose construction in the winter of ‘66 and ‘67 we remembered seeing duinto every cellar, and resultant bills to pay. Perhaps there was a readjustment of plumbing fixtures not dreamed of in 1870. Meanwhile other Mystic Valley towns were having similar experiences, and Boston, which had absorbed Charlestown with its Mystic water, found it taking in the tannery drainage of Winchester and Woburn. That was then turned into the Mystic lower lake, which soon became a big cesspool and an intolerable nuisance, only mitigated by the filter beds beside the railroad in Winc
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Medford and her Minute Men, April 19, 1775. (search)
ops at rest on the Cambridge shore were receiving a day's rations and thirty-six rounds of ammunition that Revere started from the Charlestown shore, mounted on Deacon Larkin's best horse. He had gone beyond Charlestown Neck, along the Cambridge road to the point where Crescent street now joins Washington street in Somerville, when he caught sight of two British officers halted in the shadows by the roadside. Wheeling his horse, he dashed back along the road to the Neck and turned into the Mystic road, now Broadway and Main street in Somerville, and Main street in Medford. It was the two British officers who intercepted Revere on his intended route to Cambridge that caused him to make the detour through Medford. It is because of those unknown soldiers of the night, lurking in the shadows of the road, that in Medford and at the house of Isaac Hall was sounded the first alarm on that ride. It was one o'clock before the British column left the Charles river behind them. By that ti
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28.,
Medford Square
in the early days. (search)
rmed a mental picture of how this neighboring territory we call Medford square looked then, and of the few people here located along the banks of the Mystic river? In those days the place was also called M-i-s-t-i-c-k, from the Indian name of the river Missi-tuk, which meant great tidal river. But there was nothing mystical or mysterious about it. It was the Englishman's way of pronouncing the Indian word—and by and by he spelled it M-y-s-t-i-c-k-e, and later, abbreviated into our common Mystic. I trust you have also seen that those early comers of Cradock's venture antedated the Puritan settlers of Charlestown and Boston by one—perhaps two—years. I know our town seal said Medford— Condita—1630, but Cradock's men came in 1629 or 1628. But with the coming of Governor Winthrop with King Charles' charter, their squatter sovereignty ceased and all were under the authority of the Great and General Court. I really wish the first mention of Medford in the authentic records of t
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., An early view of
Medford Square
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An early view of Medford Square. In Vol. XXVI, No. 1, under caption Views of Medford, we made special note of its illustrations in the histories by Brooks, also by Usher. In this issue we reproduce an earlier view given our Society by Mr. Edward T. Bigelow, as per this letter:— Plainville, Mass., October 7, 1924. Mr. E. T. Bigelow, 32 Forest St., Medford, Mass. Dear Mr. Bigelow:— Yours of the 4th inst. at hand. I am glad you were interested in the picture. I bought this picture from a man in Billerica. It was in with a lot of pictures of various kinds. The man who had these pictures is E. S. Hascom, and he lives in a little cottage on the Lowell Turnpike, about eight or ten miles north of Winchester. His present wife's former husband made the collection many years ago, and they found them among other antiques in their attic. He knew nothing about them as to where they came from. . . . I am glad to know it is of some interest to the Medford Historical Societ
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Changes along
High street
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ighteen years ago were but four families, have necessitated another voting precinct in Ward Six, and in the corner of the railway lot is its polling booth. It was our intention to present here a view (contemporary to that in our last issue) of Mystic hall and the Smith residence See Register, Vol. XXVI, Frontispiece. (the latter burned in 1865) but considering the greater change, are showing Brentwood court, now nearing completion. This is a modern apartment house said to be the last worte of upheaval, as the Metropolitan sewer from Lexington has been laid to connect with that built thirty years ago at Warren street. This is thirty-two inches diameter, of concrete, from Kilgore avenue and Sherman street, where it crosses the old Mystic water works conduit, cutting into its top about sixteen inches. (See Register Vol. XX, No. 1, for Disused Subway.) From this point to the river two twenty-two-inch cast-iron pipes, laid side by side, complete its course in High street. There a