The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-06
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The Co~~sy of M,ddlessr-Hs Claims to CO~sdsr'
afie~-lts Hiatorical Posit,o~-Emiment Mss-
Rapid Advance IN Population and Wsath-
Croscth Of Different Toacns-Vario.s Kinds Of
Prop~ty- Statistics 1hereof-Ma-
sSfactwes-Priaciyal Manufacturing Towns--
ootton Woollens- Papr-Other Manu-
fact~res-Shoes and Boots Powisr-Dye StnGs
-Dw,ne-Pemcls-Saip Building Msdfwd an
Old Staiion- The lie business Most Noted ice
Po~ds-Qtnntity Gatherea-Rllroad Facilitates
Brighton Market, &c, &c.
The county # Middesex is not altogether with
ont those clsius to high consideration which IL Is
sometimes accused of even arrogantly putting Tor
ward It Is the largest coassy IN the STATE stret'h
fus nom New H,pp,hire, on the north, almost to
Rhode Island. Oh tue south. 70 is the most numer
ousy psopled Of ali the Massachusetts, counties, con-
tanning from seu to fifteen thousand more people
than suffolk, and thirty thousand more than either
Worcester or Essex, the other great counties. lt
contains the of the commencement of the Re.
yolusioDsry var Here, as Mr. Webster said, are
Concord, and Lexington AID Banker Hill. 1t has
mary of The oldest towns IN the Comma wealth
Cam ridge, watertown, Concord, Charsssown, and
Others. Here is the most venerable lllege in the
United States, that OF Harvard, which dates from
able antiquity for Any thing In America Here is the
most ancient military ore anizaton IN the union oat
one The largest massachusetts ely, after Boston,
Is ia Middlesex-LUwell-s famous Tor its manafac-
lures and its handsome women, the very flower OF
New Ene bands finest productions. This county mas
always exercised great influence on the politics of the
State from the time OF re revolution, when she may
be said to have commenced the struggle that des
inn u CHI psar INIT
late years she bias given color to the character of
government. The overthrow OF that wing dynasty,
Which had so long ruled over Massachusetts, aud
which ceased IN 1850, was naialy the work Of Md
dlesex. Many leading men have been furnished Dy
this county The Prescotts have dwelt here for two
hundred years, con. .,icuors alike in peace and il
war. The only democratic senator That Massacha
sets ever bad, previous MIR R4ntoels brief term
of service, VAS Mddlesex man-Geu. Varnnm of
Dracut, who served from lsll to 1877, and who had
previously served for many years in the House OF
Representatives, OF which oody he twice CHOSEN
speaker. RALPH Wa'do Ea4eTson has long lived here,
and Mr.. Hawthorne rs twice here resided. George
g. Boutwell,, Henry Wilson, Arson Burlinehsme,
Richard Fro.hins ham, Jr., r. Il. DaBa, Jr., N. P
Banks, Jr. isaac II. Wrigas, Charles HUDSON, and B.
F. Butler, ali OF wu1m beng prominent IRON position
ana talents, CluZrus 81 MluutrseX Law
rences are M.Gdlesex men. Toe Brooks family be-
long this county. Governor Bro ms w.s seven
times chosen he ch,ef'4nagistrscy Of the State,
aad was distinguished for hs revolutionary services.
There H. in short, enough Ia bDtl she past and the
present OF Mldaiessx - Sof1Dand q high degree OF
respect, ano 70 irrant the most apgune hopes rs
to the future. When TIE hist ~ Of tie State shall
have been properly written, NJ county wall have
higher place in Il shan this, no matter what shall
be the subjects that most attract the historians at
tention.
The advance Of Middlesexin population and wealth
has been aud rapid In 1870 her population was
81 476; in 1880 it WAS 1885, ia ls4O, l04 45l; and
and in 1850 it WAS l55 1852 II had doubled in
twenty years, which s 1T rate what rapid
than that of the mole couutry's increase. OF the
forty six to Wis i'll tie county ls40 all but fve-R)x
borough, Ashby, Burr gton, Donstable, and Tewks-
bury-had increased their population in 1850. There
have been tour pew towns Ashland. Melrose SOmer-
vile, and Winchester made since 1910 The great
est increase was made by Lowell, whose population
rose from 209sI to $500. A greater rate of in.
crease than this is observable in the Of several
other towns. For example, Natick went up from
1882 to 2,s6l, considerably mere than doubling her
numbers; Cambridge, from l27 to IA 325; Stone
ham, from ,OO7 to 2,O43; Wstham from 1888 to
44s3 and Maiden, from 1850 to 1927, after losing
over 100 Of her people by the corporation Of the
town Of Melrose made from her territory The other
towns that increased most Brighton; Charles
town (from 10 SO to 10 1888 } Drscut. Framingham
Nedford, Marlborough; Ne Etop, (from 3O27 to
5,0l7) Reading, West Canbrid &C, and Woourn. It
should be mentioned that Charlie lost more than
5000 OF Der nbaota fh on "a the erection Of the
town of S3mersilie
The increase in wealth is even more remarkable
than that o. population. The valuation OF 1910
showed the properly If the county to be worth
&37 592 OS2; that Of 1850 $50 264 7l9 so, being
incr of almost forty-six milllols-not bad ten
years business, though the rate of increase is much
below that OF Norfolk and il not much greater than
that Of several other counties L Dwell incre .sed
from $40 $50 652 l3 to sl6,497 395 10; Charestown
(including SomerviIe), from Si033 ,176 80 to $40,
727 32l Cambridge, from 81 479 $40 40 to SIC, Co.'S,
1877 20; Newton from 1897 ,255 SO to $3,l57,34O;
Groton, from s722 440 SIS to 81 4jl 025; Lexington
rom 1851 549 81 to 81 ITO. 428; Medford, from ST.,
095 1876 81 70 81 400 1888; Reading from 1853 024 81
10 81 OIL O42; Maiden Qnclnding Merose), from
1856 1876 l5 to ~ 236 $50 40 Brighton, from 3458,
4S5 Al to ,634 725 Nstick, from 1882 1886 IS to
sole, 30; SUDBURY, from silO7l6 % to S9l5, s67;
Townsend, from $500 ,l07 3S TO s9O5 .970; Waltnam
from 81 O69,l III 6U ID t2,7TS,i46 90; WhtertO wn
from 1913 ,b35 IS to 81 35l 5S3 20; West Cambridge
nom $472 423 80 to 81 ,67l 644 10. These examples
win suffice, but some cases has not been mentioned
In which the rate Of Increase was a. great as III any
Of those given. Full two thirds of tue towns m Jre
than doubled their propertys value; and several Of
these which did net reach that marx, come very
near 70 it. 1t may be here remarked, once
for ill, that the rapid Increase III the value
Of property In Mas schusetS il mainly at
trbuLabie ~ the construction Of railroads, aud par
6cuary with reference to places near 10 Boston.
The growth of Newton il illustration, and for
chile one, too Of the correctness Of this remark
That town. which added to it, wealth at the rate OF
almost 81 to in ten years did so because OF the a.
cities afforded to IT by toe Boston aud Worcester
Railroad. There pot hour in tue day, nom
early in the morning unul late in the night that
Trans do not go to aud from Newton. The place, in
consequence, ha, louris1ed beyond precedent
OF the modes of property In M,ddlesex, beside
thoes elsewhere enumerated, - following NAV be