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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.
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.
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
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.