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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Literary Medford. (search)
, including all the comforts of home, use of carriages, saddle horses, salt water bathing, gymnasium, bowling alley, and all the privileges of day scholars, Spanish, German and Italian extra, three hundred dollars a year. Quoted from year book. Names of the pupils enrolled in these schools have always been and are found among the literary people of the town, thus showing an influence that has been carried down through generations. Free public schools were founded in Medford in 1670; in 1776 the people voted that the master instruct girls for two hours after the boys are dismissed, but not until 1834 was it decreed that the girls shall enjoy equal privileges therein with the boys throughout the year. This may have been one reason for the prevalence of private schools for girls and for boys and girls. This edict was not carried out, however, until the high school was organized in 1835, one of the first three free schools in the State for both sexes, devoted to the higher branche
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Jonathan Watson house. (search)
with a roof of one continuous slope backward, the rafters being fitted against the older ones. The attics of the older part were roughly plastered between the joists and the mode of construction easily seen. In his turn he gave the eastern half next the meetinghouse to his son Charles, then a bachelor, and the west-tern to his daughter, also an Abigail. She is said to have lived and died a quasi widow, for her Scotch husband, Hugh Tarbett, was a Loyalist, and decamped with the Tories in 1776. Charles Fitch rented his half to General John Brooks (afterwards and for seven years governor), who had taken up the practice of medicine in Medford after the Revolution. It was here that he was living when President Washington visited him while on his New England tour, in October, 1789, coming from Boston early in the morning, and going from Medford to Salem. The Medford schoolhouse was then close by and the school kept by Mr. Prentiss. He ranged his young charges before the house,