| Medford in the Victorian Era Contributor(s): Kerr, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738536652 ISBN-13: 9780738536651 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: When the Boston and Lowell Railroad came through in 1835, Medford was a quiet town with fewer than two thousand residents. By the twentieth century, it had become a thriving city of eighteen thousand. In Victorian Medford, everything was new, from the Medford Opera House, the town hall, and the Mystic Lakes to the camera, the bicycle, and the gypsy moth. The shipbuilding, rum, and brickmaking industries gave way to new businesses, and traditional houses came to share neighborhoods with Queen Anne and Shingle-style architecture. In the mid-nineteenth century, there was great social change, as abolitionists Lydia Maria Child and George Luther Stearns spoke out against slavery and men went to the Civil War. James W. Tufts invented the soda fountain, Fannie Farmer wrote her first cookbook, and James Pierpont wrote "Jingle Bells." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 974.44 |
| LCCN: 2004108187 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.52" W x 9.14" (0.64 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Locality - Boston-Worcester, Mass. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When the Boston and Lowell Railroad came through in 1835, Medford was a quiet town with fewer than two thousand residents. By the twentieth century, it had become a thriving city of eighteen thousand. In Victorian Medford, everything was new, from the Medford Opera House, the town hall, and the Mystic Lakes to the camera, the bicycle, and the gypsy moth. The shipbuilding, rum, and brickmaking industries gave way to new businesses, and traditional houses came to share neighborhoods with Queen Anne and Shingle-style architecture. In the mid-nineteenth century, there was great social change, as abolitionists Lydia Maria Child and George Luther Stearns spoke out against slavery and men went to the Civil War. James W. Tufts invented the soda fountain, Fannie Farmer wrote her first cookbook, and James Pierpont wrote Jingle Bells. " |
Contributor Bio(s): Kerr, Barbara: - Barbara Kerr, the assistant director of the Medford Public Library, has worked in the heart of Medford s history for almost twenty years. |
