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Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
endeavored to locate (but without success) the old building in which his mother had worshiped, and who told him of its being drawn over to South Woburn with a large number of yokes of oxen. There had been two buildings in Winchester used as leather shops which would answer the description and had been demolished a few years before his visit. The probabilities are that it was the wooden portion of the Thompson shop, which stood nearly opposite the Winchester railroad station where is now Manchester field, rather than another on the road toward Montvale. Medford, by change in town lines, is now smaller, and the road the oxen and meeting-house traversed, shorter than in 1844. Building moving of that sort has, by the introduction of modern improvements, become a lost art, and in fact can only now be done in restricted areas and under close limitations. Could this moving picture be reproduced and show Salem and Pleasant streets and the square in Malden, and Salem and High streets and
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
A Medford-Malden Movie. Unlike the modern movies this was not a picture show, yet we of today would consider it spectacular, and were it filmed it would cover a stretch of about six miles. At its occurrence photography and even the daguerreotype was in its infancy. In 1843 the Baptist church in Maiden built a new meeting-house on the present eligible site. The following year the old one was sold and moved from its ___location beside the cemetery on the Salem road, to South Woburn, which became Winchester in 1850. It was there used as a leather shop of some kind. Some twenty years since Mr. Corey, the Malden historian visited Winchester and endeavored to locate (but without success) the old building in which his mother had worshiped, and who told him of its being drawn over to South Woburn with a large number of yokes of oxen. There had been two buildings in Winchester used as leather shops which would answer the description and had been demolished a few years before his visit.
February 18th, 1908 AD (search for this): chapter 31
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.
Samuel J. Elder (search for this): chapter 31
ere attached. Under skillful direction all went well until on the shorter and more level way of Playstead road, it began to sink into a place softened by the noonday sun. Four more horses were procured and the way retraced to High street. Then the journey was resumed, up hill and around the corner of Woburn, Wyman and Winthrop streets, over the line into Winchester, and lastly by a tortuous and upgrade road reaching Wildwood at dusk, where it was later deposited at the burial lot of Samuel J. Elder, twelve horses doing the work. Probably there are few living today, that saw a locomotive hauled from West Medford to Malden, through High and Salem streets, by horse-power in the early forties. Though of the ordinary type of those early railroad days, and small as compared with present ones, it was then a novel sight, perhaps never since repeated. It was one of the early Boston and Maine Railroad, came down from Wilmington on the Boston and Lowell track —and taken across town to w
W. Medford (search for this): chapter 31
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.
Tutten (search for this): chapter 31
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.
Milford, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
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.
July 26th (search for this): chapter 32
five barrels of rum, one barrel of good brown sugar, a case of lemons and two loaves of white sugar. Medford we infer, could afford to be liberal with her own peculiar product. While we have no doubt that the peculiar product was here used to make the tackle run smoothly on that occasion, we feel that the historian of that Vermont town owes it to Medford to furnish documentary evidence of the correctness of his statement. In writing of the raising of the meeting-house in Medford (July 26 to 27, 1769) our historian says: there was no one hurt. Our fathers did not put themselves into that condition that invites catastrophies. and quotes from authentic record of another town (four years later) practically the above invoice, and adds, A natural consequence followed—two-thirds of the frame fell: many were hurt, and some fatally. We have searched in vain for authentic record to verify the Vermont historian's fling at old Medford, published by his town. We commend
1769 AD (search for this): chapter 32
of rum, one barrel of good brown sugar, a case of lemons and two loaves of white sugar. Medford we infer, could afford to be liberal with her own peculiar product. While we have no doubt that the peculiar product was here used to make the tackle run smoothly on that occasion, we feel that the historian of that Vermont town owes it to Medford to furnish documentary evidence of the correctness of his statement. In writing of the raising of the meeting-house in Medford (July 26 to 27, 1769) our historian says: there was no one hurt. Our fathers did not put themselves into that condition that invites catastrophies. and quotes from authentic record of another town (four years later) practically the above invoice, and adds, A natural consequence followed—two-thirds of the frame fell: many were hurt, and some fatally. We have searched in vain for authentic record to verify the Vermont historian's fling at old Medford, published by his town. We commend a more careful
Charles Brooks (search for this): chapter 32
es of today when distilleries are made into garages. The above was accompanied by the more than column article, from which this rum, lemon and sugar quotation was taken. In that article, Beverly, Danvers, Dunstable, Medford, Northampton, Pittsfield and Windsor are alluded to under the title of The Puritanic Present, and the writer thereof credited practically the whole to Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular. As the Vermont historian gives his quotation from the Transcript and not from Mr. Brooks, we are led to infer that he may not have read the latter. But evidently some other had, and none too carefully, and as her own peculiar product was famous, Medford got all that was coming to her. We have in years past heard people in the cars of northern trains stopping at West Medford, at the conductor's call of Medford—West Medford, remark, This is where they make Medford rum, isn't it? But until it can be verified by credible evidence that such fatality as is named really occurred
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