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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford Branch Railroad. (search)
cluded in this report. We base this conclusion upon the statements of the foregoing petition and the date of commissioners' view of location, as compared with the time of running the first trains. Who knows when that eleven-ton engine, built at Lowell, with two cars first traversed the branch? Inquiry among the oldest residents of Medford has so far been unavailing. The documentary evidence available is this: up to and including March 1, 1847, the Boston and Maine Railroad advertisement in tanal along the Mystic marshes of Charlestown and Medford, but for the last ten of the fifty the competition of the Boston and Lowell Railroad had been disastrous to the water-way. The charter of the latter railroad allowed no other railroad into Lowell for forty years, but there was no hindrance toward Boston. The canal embankments could be used as a road-bed for the Medford Branch, and the cut through the ledgy shoulder of Winter hill in the corner of Medford and Charlestown was already made.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Why Aberjona? (search)
lvester Baxter, a member of, and by permission of, the Maiden Historical Society. In looking up some data in early local history I have just come across something that seems to throw a light upon one of our old geographical names whose origin has always puzzled me and which, so far as I know, appears to be unknown. The Mystic river—which geologically has a peculiar interest as having in the preglacial period actually been the Merrimac, carrying the greater stream by a short cut from near Lowell to Massachusetts Bay—has, since the first settlements, borne two names in different parts of its course, although the entire valley has been known as that of the Mystic. From its confluence with the Charles, near the Navy Yard, up through its tidal reaches, or what were tidal until the building of the dam and locks at Medford, up to the Mystic Lakes, it has been called the Mystic. Above the lakes, from Wilmington down through Woburn and Winchester, it appears to have been always known as t
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., In another corner of Medford. (search)
s destined to win on land, and some of the land is in this corner of Medford. One day, two horses slowly towed a canal boat up through Medford to the new town of Lowell which had arisen at the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack. That boat bore a new kind of freight, the various parts of the locomotive engine which the genius of Goed from Lorin L. Dame.) One day (June 24, 1835) a curious array of uncouth vehicles came trundling on the iron rails laid on those granite blocks all the way from Lowell to Boston. With much exercise of patience, men unused to such work had assembled at Lowell the various parts of that nondescript freight, and a new era of transiLowell the various parts of that nondescript freight, and a new era of transit and mode of travel was inaugurated. We use these words in order advisedly, as it is recorded that on the previous day, the mail was carried in this new way. Well, Uncle Sam's mail is supposed to have the right of way still. Whether called so then or not, compared with the all day canal ride of twenty-six miles this was certai
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame (search)
ord, the Rev. Charles Brooks: As is the teacher, so is the school. Founded in 1835, the infant high school struggled for ten years under seven different masters, until it fell upon peaceful days under Mr. Charles Cummings for thirty years. Then followed almost twenty-seven years under Lorin L. Dame,—a phenomenal record of fifty-seven years under two masters. While Mr. Cummings was still teaching his small flock of less than a hundred pupils, the next master was receiving his education in Lowell and Tufts College, from which he was graduated in 1860 with an almost perfect record of scholarship. In the winter terms he had undertaken the short teaching terms then in fashion, and the old town school reports are still in existence, praising the young student teacher in Dracut and Westford. After his graduation, while studying law, he taught in Braintree and there married one of his most popular pupils. Upon this romance came the war, in which the schoolmaster and law student became l
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Manufactures of Lowell. (search)
The Manufactures of Lowell. --In Lowell, Mass., there are fifty-two mills with a total capital stock of $13,400,000; total number of 400,390 spindles; of looms 12,139, of females employed 8,771; of males employed 4,250.
The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], Mr. Everett in the Lecture Room. (search)
Mr. Everett in the Lecture Room. --Mr. Everett delivered his lecture on "the early life of Benjamin Franklin, " in Lowell, Mass., last week Dr. Huntington, who presided on the occasion, in behalf of the committee asked the audience during this winter to remain, should any lecturer extend his remarks beyond the 9 o'clock bell, which he knew had the bad effect to scatter a Lowell audience. He had no fears that they would notice the bell this evening, considering the ability of the lecturer, Mr. Everett, whom he would now introduce. Mr. Everett, says the Lowell Courier, was received with loud applause, and commenced by saying that, judging from the remarks just made, the audience had hardly got over associating Bell and Everett, (laughter and applause,) but his theme this evening would be something of a more pleasant nature.
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cotton for Lowell. (search)
Cotton for Lowell. --No less than 30,000 bales of cotton passed through Worcester last week, toward Lowell and Lawrence, crowding the freight cars on the various railroads. All this cotton came from Memphis, Tenn., by railroad.
The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Prizes for skating. (search)
Prizes for skating. --The skaters at Lowell, Mass., male and female, contested on Saturday last, for several prizes offered at McFarlin's Park, with the following result: First prize for boys under fourteen years of age, half mile, was won by Master E. H. C. Plympton, in 1.45, 1.39, second prize by Master Chas. F. Young, in 1.47, 1.45. Mrs. Charles Johnson won the ladies' prize for the fastest skating, half-mile heats, in 2.07 and 2.08. Frank Parker took the first prize for gentlemen, mile heats, in 3.16, 3.26. For best fancy skating Edward Warren received the first prize.
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Disbandment of Irish military companies in Massachusetts. (search)
The Disbandment of Irish military companies in Massachusetts. --The case of Capt. Patrick S. Proctor et al. of the late Jackson Guards, of Lowell, Mass.,va. ex-Adjutant General E. W. Stone, which was heard recently by the Supreme Court, was decided on Friday, The decision was in favor of the defendant, the Court ruling the right of the Governor to disband military companies, and to take from their armories the arms loaned by the State.
The Daily Dispatch: April 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 36 (search)
unces himself a candidate for re-election to Congress. Harry Perry, the actor, recently married Miss Agnes Rand in San Francisco, and has concluded to make California his home. Mr. William Kidd is giving lectures in London for the benefit of "homeless and starving dogs." Mr. Henry Wycoff (of Gamble fame) has received $2,800,--$1,000 for a St. Petersburg agency, and $1,200 for China. Henry Naulty, the business agent of Rarey, the horse tamer, died suddenly last week at Lowell, Mass. The gross amount expended by the Canadian Government on the entertainment of the Prince of Wales, is $232,374.23. Secretary Chase has already received thirty bushels of applications for office. More coming. George Little has been appointed United States Marshal for North Carolina, and Peter L. Foy Postmaster at St. Louis. David C. Hond, a printer, was killed in Memphis, Tenn., on the 28th ult., by falling down the steps of the Overton House. The name of Fort Flo
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