Some Things You Do Not Need to Know About...

...Medford.

One of the largest bank heists in U.S. History was pulled off in 1980...by MEDFORD Police Officers!

New York's Mayor Bloomberg is from Medford.

James Pierpont of Medford wrote "Jingle Bells". Lydia Child of Medford wrote "Over the River and Through the Wood".

Leopold Trouvelot, late of 10 Myrtle Street (really late) was trying to breed a better brand of silk worm when, in 1868, a few of his moths got free. He, thus, is credited with unleashing the Gypsy Moth scourge that has troubled New England ever since.

Fannie Farmer and her recipes hail from Medford.

The poor girl who was cut up and deposited in a ditch in LA in the 1940's and is today known as the "Black Dahlia" was from Medford.