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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., A Rill from an ancient spring. (search)
A Rill from an ancient spring.
A writer in the Pawtucket (R. I.) Chronicle (April, 1885) tells of Ancient Times and A Boston Well, and says, Forty years ago, the inhabitants of Boston became disgusted with the water of the city, which had become polluted with house drainage.
After alluding to the introduction of Cochituate water he said, It seems that here and there an ancient well has continued to be used.
Dug in a lot less crowded with buildings and fed perhaps by a living spring, it has still been allowed to furnish rills to slake human thirst.
One of these wells was in an estate owned by Peter C. Brooks. ... Mr. Brooks was known by report at least to some of our citizens . . . His former [city] residence was at 89 Mt. Vernon street and was sold last week.
The lot contained about a quarter of an acre, and has on it a well which has always been known as Blackstone's well.
Its water is uncontaminated and has continued to be used till the present day. The brown stone house j