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craft as far as the centre of the city. There are manufactures of considerable importance, including bricks and tiles, woollen goods, carriages and wagons, See also:

food products, See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron and See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel See also:

BUILDING

building materials and machinery. The city covers a See also:

LAND

land See also:

AREA

area of about 8 sq. in., along the Mystic river, and extending to the hills. The western portion See also:

BORDERS, THE

borders the Upper and See also:

LOWER

Lower Mystic Lakes, which are centres for boating. In the See also:

north-See also:

west portion of Medford is a See also:

PART

part of the Middlesex Fells, a heavily wooded reserve belonging to the extensive See also:

METROPOLITAN (Lat. metropolitanus, Gr. µnrpoiroXtrns)

Metropolitan See also:

Park See also:

SYSTEM

System maintained by the See also:

state. The broad parkways of this system also skirt the Mystic Lakes, and here is the greater part (1907, 267 out of 291 acres) of the Mystic River See also:

RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

Reservation of the Metropolitan System. Among the city parks are See also:

Hastings, See also:

Brooks, See also:

Logan, Tufts and Magoun.

Within the city limits are some of the See also:

OLDEST

oldest and most interesting examples of colonial domestic See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture in See also:

AMERICA

America, including the so-called " See also:

CRADOCK

Cradock See also:

House " (actually the See also:

Peter Tufts house, built in 1677-1680), the " See also:

Wellington House," built in 1657, and the " Royall House." The last was built originally by See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

Governor See also:

John See also:

Winthrop for the tenants of his Ten Hills See also:

FARM

Farm, and was subsequently enlarged and occupied by Lieut.-Governor John See also:

Usher, and by See also:

ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac Royall' (c. 1720-1781) and his son, Isaac Royall, Jun. Medford has a public library of about 35,200 volumes, housed in the colonial See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence (reconstructed) of Thatcher Magoun. The city has also a city See also:

hall, a high school and See also:

MANUAL

manual training school, an See also:

OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera house, and one of the handsomest armory buildings in the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country (the See also:

home of the See also:

Lawrence See also:

LIGHT

Light Guard), presented by See also:

General See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel C. Lawrence (b. 1832), a liberal benefactor of Medford institutions and the first See also:

mayor of the city (1892-1894). The See also:

SALEM

Salem St. Burying Ground, dating froth 1689, is one of the oldest See also:

BURIAL

burial places in America. The Medford See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical Society maintains a library and museum in the birthplace of See also:

LYDIA

Lydia Maria See also:

Child. Medford is the seat of Tufts See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, planned and founded as a Universalist institution in 1852 by See also:

HOSEA

Hosea See also:

BALLOU, HOSEA (1771-1852)

Ballou, its first See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president, and others, and named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

Charles Tufts (1781-1876), a successful manufacturer, who gave the land on which it stands. The college, which had 1120 students and 217 instructors in 19o9, comprises a college of letters, a divinity school, and a school of See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering (all in Medford), and medical and dental See also:

SCHOOLS

schools in Boston; it is now undenominational. Among the twenty college buildings, the See also:

BARNUM, PHINEAS TAYLOR (1810-1891)

Barnum Museum of Natural See also:

HISTORY

History (x885) founded by Phineas T.

Barnum, and the" See also:

Eaton Memorial Library (1907), presented by Mrs See also:

Andrew See also:

Carnegie in memory of her pastor, are noteworthy. The college endowment amounted in 1908 to $2,300,000. Medford was first settled in 163o. A considerable portion of its area formed the See also:

PLANTATION (Lat. plantare, to plant)

plantation of See also:

Matthew Cradock (d. 1641), first governor of the Massachusetts See also:

Bay See also:

COMPANY

Company, who in 163o A prominent Loyalist, whose See also:

ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate was seized during the See also:

War of See also:

Independence, but was restored to his heirs about 1800. He endowed the first professorship of See also:

law in America—at Harvard College. sent out agents to See also:

settle his lands. John Winthrop's " Ten Hills Farm," partly within the See also:

PRESENT

present limits of Medford, was settled soon afterwards. One of the earliest See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries was See also:

SHIP

ship-building, John Winthrop's " Blessing of the Bay," built on the Mystic in 1631-1632, being one of the first keels laid on the See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent. In 1802 Thatcher Magoun began building See also:

sea-going vessels, and many of the famous privateers of the War of '812 were constructed here. By 1845 Medford employed fully a See also:

QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter of all the shipwrights of the state. The See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry gradually lost its importance after the introduction of steamships, and the last See also:

KEEL

keel was laid in 1873.

Another See also:

early industry was the distilling of See also:

rum; this was carried on for two centuries, especially by the Hall See also:

FAMILY

family and, after about '830, by the Lawrence family, but was discontinued in 1905. The manufacture of See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick and See also:

TILE (0. Eng. tigel, Fr. tuile, connected with Lat. tegula)

tile was an important industry in the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. The Cradock See also:

BRIDGE

bridge, the first See also:

toll-bridge in New See also:

England, was built across the Mystic in 1638; over it for 150 years ran the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal thoroughfare, from Boston to Maine and New See also:

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

Hampshire. The course of See also:

Paul See also:

Revere's ride See also:

lay through Medford Square and High See also:

Street, and.within a See also:

HALF

half-See also:

HOUR

hour of his passage the Medford See also:

minute men were on their way to See also:

Lexington and See also:

Concord, where they took part in the engagements with the See also:

BRITISH

British. After the See also:

BATTLE

Battle of See also:

SARATOGA, BATTLES OF

Saratoga many of See also:

Burgoyne's See also:

OFFICERS

officers were quartered here for the See also:

winter. The Middlesex See also:

Canal was opened through Medford in 1803, and the Boston & See also:

Lowell railroad (now the southern division of the Boston & Maine) in '831. Medford was chartered as a city in 1892. See Charles Brooks, History of the See also:

TOWN

Town of Medford (Boston, 1855 enlarged by J. M. Usher, Boston, '886); Historical See also:

Settlement of Medford (Medford, 1905) ; S. A. See also:

Drake, History of Middlesex County (2 vols., Boston, '880) and See also:

HELEN

Helen See also:

TILDEN, SAMUEL JONES (1814-1886)

Tilden See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

Wild, Medford in the Revolution (Medford, 1903).

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