The Medford Historical Register (Volume 12-14) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... The Medford Historical Register. Vol. XIII. APRIL, 1910. No. a. THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WEST MEDFORD. By Herbert N. Ackerman. Read before the Medford Historical Society, May 17,1909. r I 'HE Congregational Church of West Medford, JL organized in June, 1872, developed naturally from a Sabbath-school which had been in existence for seven years. At the time the Sabbath-school was opened there were on High street, between Winthrop square and the West Medford depot, twenty-five houses; on Prescott street, eight; on Cottage street, four; on Canal street, one; on Warren street, four; on Irving street, two; on Brooks street, four; on Allston street, ten; on Mystic street, four; on Woburn and Purchase (now Winthrop) streets, thirteen. These, with three barns, a blacksmith shop (corner High and Warren streets), the schoolhouse (corner Brooks and Irving streets), and the almshouse, make eighty-one buildings east of the railroad and north of Mystic river. West of the railroad and north of High street were two dwellings next the depot, and the buildings of the Brooks' estates. Between High street and Mystic river were eleven buildings--a barn opposite the Brooks' farmhouse; Mystic Hall, at its present location; the residences of Mr. George F. Spaulding and Mr. Henry T. Woods, River street (now Harvard avenue); of Mr. Horace A. Breed, Bower street; the old Canal House, at the present intersection of Boston avenue and Arlington street, and five dwellings on Canal street. The larger part of this tract was known as the " Smith Estate," upon which there had previously been conducted a girls' boarding school, with dormitories at the Mansion House, on Canal street, and Mystic Hall for recitations. The churches then at Medford were the Unitarian, Universalist and Mystic, ...