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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The old powder house. (search)
The old powder house.
Among the recent accessions of our Society's library we find a newspaper clipping entitled The Old Wayside Mill.
It bears no date and is evidently from some local paper of over thirty years ago. It describes a structure well known to Medford people by sight, but not within our city's bounds.
Historian Brooks (in 1855) alluded to it thus:—
When the circular stone windmill, now standing on Quarry hill in Somerville, was built, the inhabitants of Medford carried their grain there.
Before the Revolution the mill was converted into a powder house and has been used as such to our day.
Just what he meant by our day does not appear.
Mr. Usher added no information and little mention has ever been made of it in the Register, which now for almost the first time varies from its course of Medford almost exclusively.
It is well to remember that until 1754, Medford was a small town lying four miles along but one side of Mystic river.
We have always had a c
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., History or Fable, which had we? (search)
History or Fable, which had we?
Our Historical Society is completing its thirtieth year and with the coming issue the twenty-ninth volume of its publication.
There were some who thought in its early days that it would soon exhaust the stock of history, but there is yet a lot to learn.
For instance, when was Medford first settled?
Where? And who were they who came into this unknown land and built their first habitation?
Was it on a promontory, sixty rods southeast of the ancient house. . . of James and Isaac Wellington?
This assertion was made (1855): On its highest point they built the first home erected in Medford, in July, 1630.
As this spot was then in Charlestown, later Malden and Everett, and not till 1817 or 1875 in Medford, shall we regard it as history or, quoting our former president, as a whole lot of fable?
Areal history of Medford's earliest days would be really interesting.
And who was Peter Tufts?
Such was the query made in a recent address before the Medford Historical Society.
It was a pertinent query, and in a measure answered by the speaker, who alluded to the so-called heretics and vandals and assailers of vague tradition who have given his name to a substantial old brick dwelling house in our city which for forty years had been otherwise styled.
As shown in a genealogy of 1855, there were three of the name (father, son and grandson), other Peters more remotely related, and nearly four hundred of the Tufts surname.
The eldest Peter Tufts was an early settler in Malden and came to Medford, purchasing his land of the son and executor of Richard Russell, who had acquired title of Collins, and he of the Cradock heirs.
It is well to remember that territorially the Medford of its earliest days was but about four square miles entirely surrounded by Charlestown, entirely north of the river, and Peter Tufts' purchase in the eastern corner.
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