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Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, chapter 11 (search)
sent Water Street, extend to Fowle's Mill Pond, and thence northwesterly along the mill pond and brook, and northerly across the brook to the Charlestown Line. (This brook, Sucker Brook, was originally Alewife Meadow Brook, and should not be confounded with the present Alewife Brook, flowing out of Fresh Pond, originally the Menotomy [a] River. The Rocks continued along the Charlestown Line to a point near the present Lexington and Arlington Line. The territory to the west— Lexington since 1713—was originally known as Cambridge Farms. It was colloquial to refer to the grants in this immediate vicinity as the small farms; hence the item in the inventory of the property of Thomas1 Brigham, a small fare at Charlestown line, £ 10. The ancient use of the term farm did not imply that the land was under cultivation. It will thus be seen that all the present Arlington Heights, also the well-known Turkey Hill (which is half an inch lower), was included in what was anciently known as