BOSTON DAILY GLOBE, August 19, 1883, Pg 6 WOBURN Product of a Local Silver Mine Worked More than a Century Ago. WOBURN, August 18. - Mr S. Holden has in his possession twelve silver sleeve buttons. The ore from which they were made was taken from a silver mine opened in Woburn by Ebenezer Brooks in 1759. The buttons have stamped on them the name of Mr. Brooks and the above date. These buttons, and silver enough to make knee and shoe buckles, was got out, and as the tradition says, a barrel of rum was horsed up and the mine worked as long as the rum lasted. Quite a number of years ago some people in Medford came to Woburn and got permission from the owners of the land to work the old mine, but so little silver was found that the work was abandoned.