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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Pine and Pasture Hills and the part they have Contributed to the development of Medford. (search)
convenience—not hill-top villas or bungalows. The Halls owned the whole of Pasture hill, but never dreamed of living up there; they left it to the kite-flying boys, rock or granite is the so-called red gravel, or, as it is sometimes called, Pasture hill gravel, Pasture hill being the place from which it was first excavated. ThePasture hill being the place from which it was first excavated. There are two elevations that have yielded most of the granite that has been quarried and the red gravel that has been excavated. Pine hill, the larger of the elevation nearly the whole distance, until a small elevation is reached just north of Pasture hill and a short distance therefrom, where there was once a granite quarry, then ture, as it was known in the early days of the plantation. What is called Pasture hill at the present day is the easterly portion of a hill that extends westerly tn to Woburn. Probably at that early day the road passed around the verge of Pasture hill, the slope of the great south bastion of the hill being quite abrupt, and a
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., What mean these stones? (search)
to the writer with this question, Mr.—— what is that stone post on——street, near the brook, for? adding, my teacher said that he didn't know, but probably you could tell me. The stone in question is one of the markers of grade lines established by order of selectmen May 28, 1889, in accordance with general laws of 1888, and which, to the number of twenty-two, may be seen at the roadsides, near the crossing of all brooks and the river. They are (mainly) of the dark Medford granite of Pasture hill, about a foot square, and of varying heights. A square space is roughly dressed across the roadside face and indented thus, G/19 ÷ 6″, or otherwise, as location needs. Probably the grade act had never come under the schoolmaster's notice, and there are others equally excusable. The schoolboy's query shows that he used his eyes and tongue to some purpose, and suggests the ancient one we have above quoted. We were not licensed to preach, but gave the schoolboy the information he s