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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., More about the powder house. (search)
and West Cambridge and extending westward up to old Woburn line. The residents in that section soon asked for annexation to West Cambridge, which was soon done. The new town thus made, beginning near Sullivan Square, lay westward between Mystic river and Medford on the east and north and Cambridge on the south, extending to the Menotomy river (alias Alewife brook) and to Mystic river again. It had numerous hills of considerable elevation and historic interest. One of the lesser is the Quarry hill already mentioned. Old Charlestown early made a remarkable survey and record of its territory and belongings. In a book of two hundred and sixty pages it is given in third report of Record Commissioners, from 1638 to 1802. In this book is much about present Medford territory. This is now presented to complete the story, and especially to answer a query we received relative to the name Broadway. The level land between Walnut and Quarry hills was in olden time called Sorrelly plain