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."
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