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Medford is a city 6.7 miles (10.8 km) northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 59,659. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus on both sides of the Medford and Somerville border.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Medford, city, Middlesex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the Mystic River just north of Boston. It was founded in 1630, when Mathew Cradock settled a plantation there; its English place-name is descriptive of a “middle ford.”
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As a result, construction of the first high school (grades 9-12), two grammar schools (grades 4-8), and one or more primary schools (grades K-3) got underway. In addition, Tufts College opened its doors in 1852 to students from Medford and elsewhere.
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Medford was a small, pleasant village at the beginning of the eighteenth century with a population of fewer than 230 people. By 1803, 1,114 persons were counted in the town in the national census of that year. Not all residents in the town were free.
Read about the first three centuries of Medford: A Peculiar Plantation, A Quiet Country Town, The Emerging City, Your House in the Streetcar Suburb Making Bricks Moulder at the brick mill.
Medford Early History – 17th and 18th Centuries. 1. Captain Isaac Hall Hitching Post. On the evening of April 18, 1778, Paul Revere went up Main St, over the Cradock Bridge, and stopped at the house of Isaac Hall, captain of the Medford Minutemen Company.
Modern Medford was born late in this century and the new city was vastly different from the old Medford which had lasted mostly unchanged for over two centuries. The changes came slowly at first, then faster, and finally they came inevitably.
