Medford historian Dee Morris’s summer walking tour this year will feature the Wellington neighborhood. Tonight at the library Dee provides an overview of this most eastern part of Medford, which honors the Wellington brothers who farmed the land in 1819. Over time, the pair 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 offered shooting contests on fertile marshes that once produced hay. Clay deposits off Riverside Avenue provided raw materials for the New England Brick Company, whose French Canadian employees lived nearby. In several different forms, Wellington believed in success. The program will include a guest appearance by Evalyn O’Rourke of the library staff as Mary S. Hopkins. RSVP through the library’s online calendar.

Dee will lead her Wellington walking tours on three Saturdays at 10 a.m.: June 29, July 27, and September 28.