Join local historian Dee Morris as she explores the history of the Wellington neighborhood.

Embracing the most eastern part of Medford, this neighborhood honors the Wellington brothers who farmed the land in 1819. Over time, they transformed the fields into a neat grid of numbered streets. These new house lots attracted craftsmen, business types and educators who enjoyed being close to Boston. The Wellington Gun Club they offered shooting contests on fertile marshes that once produced hay. Clay deposits off Riverside Ave provided raw materials for the New England Brick Company, whose French Canadian employees lived near by. In several different forms, Wellington believed in success!

With a guest appearance by Evalyn O’Rourke, Library Staff, as Mary S. Hopkins.