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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., How Medford began to grow. (search)
or Mr. Swan dreamed of. Sagamore Vale, Mr. Bishop's lands east of the Fountain House, is now a thickly populated section. His similar show of diagrams was on July 13, 1853; but who now knows the locality by that name? According to a newspaper advertisement, to which we find attached in writing this drastic comment, An absolutely inflated description by the auctioneer, four hundred building lots and the Bishop mansion lay between Forest, Salem, Fulton and Webster streets, in Vale of Sagamore, Medford. Also that on Bellevue Heights were fifty acres of fertile land. The auctioneer of May 27, 1857, was George R. Hichborn, and in advertising was a close competitor of one later mentioned. The second outlay named by Mr. Brooks was in 1852, at the western border of the town, comprising nearly all the territory between the river, the railroad and High street. The tract was referred to in the records of the Proprietors of Middlesex Canal(which traversed it) as Brooklands. Its agen