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[p. 65] vote was passed and the mover thereof was delegated to represent the society. As a result, the following petitions were presented to the Metropolitan Park Commission. That such was the original name of the stream will be clearly seen in the preceding article, the work of one of the signers of the petition.

To the Honorable Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners.
The undersigned committee, duly appointed and authorized by vote of their respective societies, respectfully request that your Honorable Board take such action as will lead to the restoration of the more ancient name of ‘Menotomy River’ to the so-called ‘Alewife Brook,’ lying between and forming a portion of the boundaries of the cities and town of Cambridge, Somerville and Arlington.

That the name ‘Menotomy River’ be used to designate the new channel now being constructed between Spy Pond and Mystic River, in the proposed Act relocating the boundary lines between the cities of Cambridge and Somerville and the town of Arlington, along the center of the new channel; and that the name of ‘Menotomy River’ be used on the signboards erected by your commission in the reservation bordering the new channel, and in any other manner which will restore and fix in the public mind the name ‘Menotomy River.’

(Signed)

Richard H. Dana, Cambridge Historical Society. Hollis R. Bailey, Cambridge Historical Society. Moses W. Mann, Medford Historical Society. Frederick E. Fowle, Arlington Historical Society. J. Albert Holmes, Somerville Historical Society.

To the Honorable Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners.
The undersigned committee, duly appointed and authorized by vote of their respective societies, respectfully request that the concrete masonry bridge over the new channel of Alewife Brook, proposed to be called Menotomy River, near its junction with Mystic River, be called Dunster Bridge, in honor of Reverend Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College, who owned adjacent lands in ‘Menotomy Fields’ prior to 1656.

(Signed)

Moses W. Mann, Medford Historical Society. Frederick E. Fowle, Arlington Historical Society. J. Albert Holmes, Somerville Historical Society. Cambridge, Mass., December 6, 1909.

Medford, MA. 1911.

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