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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Some unusual moving scenes in Medford. (search)
Some unusual moving scenes in Medford. We have in our Medford Scrap Book a picture of a moving event which occurred on February 18, 1908, when an irregular block of Milford granite was by a horse battalion, carried from West Medford to Wildwood Cemetery in Winchester. It was something out of the usual course of events and worthy of permanent record in Medford annals. Brought by rail to Tutten's granite works, the inscription was there made in a somewhat unique manner by Medford artisans. The letters were deeply cut in the stone, broader at the back than at the surface and filled with lead; thus securely dovetailed in. Weather conditions precluded transportation on sleds as intended, and the season was advancing. So four thick oaken wheels three feet in diameter, on one axle with surmounting timbers, formed a stout truck on which the eighteen ton block was loaded. This carried the load, while others of the usual type were forward, to which five pairs of horses were attached.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., What Mean Ye by these stones? (search)
o new wooden boxes which were coated with a preservation composition. Prior to January 9, 1925, a concrete vault three feet, four inches square inside and one foot, nine inches deep, its enclosing wall seven inches thick, had been prepared. Mr. Tutten, who redressed the base stone with its inscription, prepared at the West Medford granite works a slab of Milford granite twelve inches thick, large enough to entirely cover the vault. In the box with its contents was placed a written account (as above given) of the occurrence of the opening, and a copy of the Register as above named securely wrapped in black Neponset paper for its better preservation. At 1.35 P. M. on Friday, January 9, 1925, Mr. Tutten rolled the new base stone in position over the vault in which the boxes of Indian remains had just been placed, and directly afterward re-erected the monument upon it. Its inscribed die is also of Milford granite, while the upright shaft is of Rockport. The irregular cap-stone is