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Title: Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Subjects: Middlesex County (Mass.)--History Middlesex County (Mass.)--Description and travel
Publisher: J.R. Osgood and Company
Contributing Library: Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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in and Union Streets, and wasdestroyed by fire in 1850. The old Fountain Tavern, so called from its sign representinga fountain pouring forth punch, is still standing on the oldSalem road, at the corner of Fountain Street. Brooks, in hisHistory of Medford, says it was first called the Two Palaverers.The two large trees in front had each a platform in its branches,connected with each other and with the house by woodenbridges. In summer these retreats were resorted to by theguests for tea-parties or punch-drinking. The house was builtin 1725, and is extremely unique in appearance. The name of. Medford is known in every seaport under thesun for its stanch and well-built ships. Of the thousands thatfloat the ocean bearing any flag aloft, none sail more proudlythan those of Curtis or Magoun. This industry, which hasdated from the time when Englishmen first. set foot on theshores of the Mystic, has of late years fallen into decay, butonce more the familiar sound of the shipwrights beetle is
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THE PLANTATION AT MYSTIC SIDE. 166 beginning to be heard on its banks. Cradock sent over skilledartisans, who at once laid down the keels that have increased soprodigiously. Although we are told his men had a vessel of ahundred tons on the stocks in 1632, the earlier craft were chieflypinnaces, galleys, and snows, — the latter being rigged some-what after the fashion of our barks. No branch of mechani-cal skill appears to have developed with such rapidity in NewEngland as shipbuilding. The timber, which is now broughthundreds of miles to the yards, then grew along the shores.We now bring the keel from Virginia, the frame from the GulfStates, and the masts from Canada. New England, which doesnot furnish a single product entering into the construction ofthe ship, forges the anchor which holds her to the bottom;twists the hemp into shrouds, rigging, and those spiders-websaloft whose intricacies confound the eye; spins the cotton whichhangs from the yards, and weaves the colors that flo

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