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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The old powder house. (search)
ce, the grasp of that reckless hand? Or, was that wild clutch of the fatal band An act of retributive wrath foreseen? Was the old mill an avenger of wrong that day? Who shall answer the question, yea or nay? In Historic Leaves (published by Somerville Historical Society) in 1903, Florence Carr has an interesting article of six pages on the Mallet family, tracing its Huguenot origin and its connection with the old mill. Mrs. L. F. A. Maulsby also gives in a Somerville souvenir a brief accounford and was fenced into cattle pens and had one small structure on which was painted Medford Cattle Market. One day each week was there for years a busy one. Aaron Sargent in Historic Leaves tells of Broadway (the Menotomy road) in 1842, when Somerville came into being, naming the then existing houses, and only named two between Medford street and Menotomy river,—the Tufts house and that of Russell, far away on the western slope of Walnut hill. So the old mill and powder house stood in lone