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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 74 74 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 36 36 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 29 29 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 25 25 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 24 24 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 10 10 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 9 9 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 6 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 4 4 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906 4 4 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The old powder house. (search)
ase of the site in 1703-4, and is mentioned in his will (1720) which devised it to his two sons. Its walls are two feet thick and built of the blue (slate) ledge stone, probably quarried from the hill close by, over two centuries ago. While used as a mill its surmounting roof was mounted on some kind of tracks and could turn around for its sails to face the wind, which was its motive power. When no longer thus used, the roof was permanently fixed in its present form. From that time (about 1750) the public's interest in it is that of its being the powder magazine of the province. Medford had taken alarm and removed its powder elsewhere just before the visit of the British troops, who removed the two hundred and fifty half-barrels it contained to Boston. We cannot say when it was last used for safe storage of powder, but remember that our first sight of it (except from the railway cars) was in summer of 1861 as we walked up from Central street to Camp Cameron, near Cambridge line
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
to the cellar was at the west end of the house. The door that leads into the cellar from the outside today is at the east end of the house. The passageway into the cellar through the north room, the use of which was forbidden to my son Peter, was probably by means of a trap door in the floor, a method of reaching the cellar much in use in those days. This same curious division of the house into two parts by will was also practiced by Mr. Ebenezer Cutter, a later owner of the same house, in 1750, when he set off the west end to his widow and the easterly end to his eldest son. Only Mr. Cutter was a little more liberal to his eldest son, specifying that he shall have the liberty of putting in casks at the other cellar door in the widow's part of the house and taking them out as he may occasion. One's imagination, if not severely tempered by Mr. Mann, might run riot on a house thus divided against itself. I cannot find to whom Peter Tufts left the west end of the house, but probably