Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2005.05 |
Title |
Symmes Park Water Tower |
Collection |
Subject Collections |
Object Name |
Records |
Scope & Content |
The Symmes Park water tower was erected about 1930 in a residential area. This area was partially developed land lying between Cranston and Ledyard Roads, west of Rt. 38 toward Medford. In 1931 it was voted to remove the tower to the Middlesex Fells, but expenditures for new schools took precidence. It was finally moved about 1934. The collection consists of meeting notes, chronology of events and lists of residents and people who owned land who were applying for abatements on property tax. There are 6 photos 3.5 x 4.5 and 3 photos 5 x 7 of the tower and surrounding houses. |
Admin/Biographical History |
Erving Fox lived at 418 Highland Ave. His nephew, Robert E. Schulz, found these papers and photos in a trunk and sent them to us. |
Copyrights |
Permission to publish material from this collection is subject to approval by the Town of Winchester. |
Subjects |
Water supply Water towers Waterworks |
Search Terms |
Allen Road Cranston Road Franklin Road Ledyard Road Pierrepont Road Sargent Road Sherwood Road Symmes Park Willowdale Road |
People |
Burton, Carlisle W. Elliott, Fred R. Fox, Erving N. Gleason, Percy E. Hatch, Frederick S. Knight, Edmund F. Russell, Frederick A. |