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Chapters: Landforms of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Settlements in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Revere, Massachusetts, Chelsea, Massachusetts, Winthrop, Massachusetts, Boston Harbor, Deer Island, Pope John Paul Ii Park Reservation, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Fort Point Channel, Rumney Marsh Reservation, Chestnut Hill Reservoir, Massachusetts Bay, Winthrop Beach, Yirrell Beach. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Winthrop, Massachusetts -The town was settled in 1635 by English colonists as Pullen Poynt. In 1775, residents of what is now Winthrop, Revere, and Chelsea played a key role in the Battle of Chelsea Creek of the Revolutionary War. It was officially incorporated in 1852 and named Winthrop after Deane Winthrop, the son of the first Governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop, and is one of the four municipalities in Suffolk County (the others are the cities of Boston, Revere, and Chelsea). It is located on a peninsula, at the beginning of the North Shore, with seven miles of shoreline that provides views of the ocean to the east and of the Boston skyline to the west. Originally part of an area called Winnisimmet by the Native Massachusett tribe, the peninsula was annexed by Boston in 1632 and within five years became the grazing area for farm animals of the rapidly growing Boston colony. In 1637 it was divided into 15 parcels of land that were given by Governor Winthrop to prominent men in Boston with the stipulation that each must erect a building on his land within two years. Few, if any, of these men ever lived here, but their farms prospered. One of these early houses, built initially during the first half of the 1600s, and rebuilt in 1675, was the home of Governor Winthrops youngest son, Deane Winthrop, who lived there until his de...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=257337 ... Read more

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Chapters: Dunn State Park. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 80. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dunn State Park -Dunn State Park is a 119-acre (0.48 km) park offering multiple recreation opportunities. The 20-acre Dunn Pond is a feature of the park. Dunn Pond is located on Rt. 101 (on Pearl St.) just off 140 and Rt 2. It is frequented by Picnic goers and family swimmers. There is a picnic area with almost a dozen picnic tables and fireplace grills. There is a nearby grassy knoll which is great for playing games or sports like Frisbee. A trail that encircles the pond has exercise, "Vita Courses" along the way. There are also little trails that veer off the main path for adventuring, fishing, or just to get a better view of the parks natural scenery. There are several locations around the lake to sit on a bench, and there are even more docks to fish from. One such location is accessible by car via Betty Spring Road. Visitors can drive up and park behind the lake and sit on the benches, the fishing dock, or visit the wooden bridge. Every year, the lake is stocked with fish, and fishing derbies are held, (usually on Sundays). The state also hosts a myriad of events at the pond; from cross country races, to log rolling and chain saw contests. During the summer, you can often catch the ice cream truck, which sometimes stops here. This is great for the kids, as are the two playgrounds by the public swimming area. There are Life guards on duty during daytime hours in the summer. At times, you can rent a paddle boat or canoe and take it out on the water. In the fall, runners from the nearby Gardner High School use the recently built bike trail. This is a great place to run or walk your stroller, dog, or friend for some exercise, and is a scenic and serene trek through the forest. The wi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5744496 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Landforms of Nantucket County, Massachusetts, Settlements in Nantucket County, Massachusetts, Nantucket Forests, Tuckernuck Island, Muskeget, Nantucket Historic District, Madaket Ditch, Siasconset, Massachusetts, Cape Cod and Islands, Wauwinet, Massachusetts, Madaket, Massachusetts, Dry Shoal, Coskata, Massachusetts, Nantucket Shoals. Excerpt: The Nantucket forests have an unusual history. Continual salt saturated wind and nutrient poor soils set severe limits upon tree growth and the wood products that might be accessed by both indigenous peoples and colonial settlers. Nantucket Island lies 30 miles off the southern coastline of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In 1775, Nantucket was the largest whaling port in the world, and the third largest port in Massachusetts. However, dominance in this most adventurous, dangerous and potentially lucrative of all maritime trades was not supported by an extensive, local, ship building industry. Early Nantucket forests were unusual and determined the scope of indigenous and colonial wooden ship building on Nantucket Island. In spite of numerous statements about island forests as a source for lumber (see 1889 USGS report which only repeats local oral tradition), a strong case can be made that Nantucket has not been forested for the past 4,000 years at least in terms of what is usually thought of as a forest - numerous tall trees 50 or more feet in height. Visitors to Nantucket in the late 1700s and early 1800s describe the island as nearly treeless. However, many publications mention post glacial forests composed of oak, with some beech, pine, maple, and hickory. These trees were present but only in small numbers and severely reduced in height. They were cut down for firewood, fence posts and short building ti... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19786119 ... Read more

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Chapters: Chapel Brook, Mount Grace State Forest, Bear's Den, Kenneth Dubuque Memorial State Forest, Monroe State Forest, South River State Forest, Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Cold River Virgin Forest, Rattlesnake Gutter, Lake Wyola State Park. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Chapel Brook of Franklin County, Massachusetts is the name of a tributary of the South River (of the Deerfield River watershed) and the name of a 173-acre (70 ha) open space preserve located along the brook. The brook, est. 3.79 mi (6 km) long, is located in southeast Ashfield and southwest Conway. It drains into Poland Brook, thence into the South River, the Deerfield River, the Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound. The Chapel Brook reservation, managed by the non-profit conservation organization The Trustees of Reservations, is located in Ashfield and contains Chapel Falls, a series of three waterfalls on Chapel Brook, measuring 10 feet (3.0 m), 15 feet (4.6 m) and 20 feet (6.1 m) high; and Pony Mountain (also called Chapel Ledge) est. 1,400 feet (426 m), a 100-foot (30 m) open granite cliff face and popular recreational rock climbing site. After Ashfield was incorporated in 1765, colonial settlers moved into the region and cleared the forest for pasture. By 1831, the area around Pony Mountain contained the larger part of a herd of 8,000 sheep. At the same time, Chapel Falls became the site of at least two gristmills and a two-room schoolhouse. The school "doubled as a Methodist chapel on Sundays, when the folding doors separating the two rooms were swung open." The original acreage of the Chapel Brook reservation was donated by Mrs. Henry T. Curtiss in 1964 in memory of her husband and expanded with purchases derived from Curtiss' endowment ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11397676 ... Read more

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Chapters: Bartholomew's Cobble. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bartholomew's Cobble -Cobble is derived from the German word kobel or koble, usually applied to small, rocky, rounded and exposed hill. The property was originally occupied by the Mahican tribe and subsequently settled by Colonel John Ashley, a New England colonial revolutionary for whom Ashely Falls is named. Ashley built a house near the Cobblesthe Colonel John Ashley House--now a historic site also managed by The Trustees of Reservations. The property was farmland and pasture before it came into the hands of The Trustees of the Reservations in 1946. Additional acreage was acquired through more than ten purchases and donations from 1963 to 2000. Ferns and moss growing on Cobble ledgeSeveral factors contribute to the biodiversity of Bartholomew's Cobble. First, the region is so spacially and climatically located that it contains a number of species that reach the northern or southern limit of their range in North America. Second, the property is located at the boundary of two distinct state bioregions: the marble valley lowlands of The Berkshires geology and the Taconic uplands. Third, the Cobbles, twin rocky knolls abutting the Housatonic River, are composed of quartzite, an acidic rock, and marble, an alkaline (calcareous) rock. This produces high variation in soil chemistry, which in turn supports species of ferns and other plants that do not normally grow in close proximity to one another. Fern species include the Walking fern, Maidenhair spleenwort, Mountain spleenwort, Maidenhair fern, Bulblet fern, Marginal woodfern, Polypody, Ostrich fern, and Evergreen woodfern. Flowering plant species include Red Columbine, Herb Robert, Northern prickly ash, Bloodroot, Spring beauty, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8369020 ... Read more

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Chapters: Robert Frost Trail, Petticoat Hill, Hampshire and Hampden Canal, Kenneth Dubuque Memorial State Forest, Glendale Falls. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Robert Frost Trail is a 47-mile (76 km) long footpath that passes through the eastern Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts. The trail runs from the Connecticut River in South Hadley, Massachusetts to Ruggles Pond in Wendell State Forest, through both Hampshire and Franklin County and includes a number of scenic features such as the Holyoke Range, Mount Orient, Puffer's Pond, and Mount Toby. The trail is named after the poet Robert Frost, who lived and taught in the area from 1916 to 1938. Although only 47 miles long, the Robert Frost Trail takes in a diverse patchwork of habitats, terrain, and scenery. The trail traverses traprock Metacomet Ridge with its microclimate ecosystems; wetland habitat; ponds; farmland; deep ravines; wooded ledges; river banks; reservoirs; historic mill ponds; and dense forests. One segment of the trail follows a narrow greenway that successfully weaves through a small suburban development; another passes through a revegetated landfill; and yet another follows a mowed path along railroad tracks. The Robert Frost Trail has undergone periodic extensions to its length. The most recent included routing the trail over the western half of the Holyoke Range; a proposed northern extension would bring the trail to the Deerfield River. Out of date internet and print sources still describe the trail as either 33 or 40 miles (53 or 64 km) long. The 110-mile (180 km) Metacomet-Monadnock Trail intersects the Robert Frost Trail several times, as do a lengthy network of smaller trails (many managed by the Amherst Department of Conservation), allowing for a variety...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14597828 ... Read more

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Chapters: Robinson State Park, Hampshire and Hampden Canal, Tolland State Forest, Holyoke Canal System, Granville State Forest, Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Quinebaug Woods, Broad Brook Canal. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Hampshire and Hampden Canal was the Massachusetts segment of an 86-mile (138 km) canal that once connected New Haven, Connecticut to the Connecticut River north of Northampton, Massachusetts. Its Connecticut segment was called the Farmington Canal. The canal dates to 1821 when New Haven businessmen began to raise capital and investigate a possible canal route from their harbor to central Massachusetts, and on to Barnet, Vermont and Canada beyond. In this original vision, the canal would pass through Farmington, Connecticut to the border at Southwick, Massachusetts, then join the Connecticut River near Northampton, and from there continue to the St. Lawrence River through Lake Memphremagog and the valley of the St. Francis River. Two side canals were also envisioned: one running from Farmington through Unionville, Connecticut to Colebrook, Connecticut; the other linking to the Erie Canal via the Hudson River or the proposed (but never built) Boston and Albany Canal. Benjamin Wright, the Erie Canal's chief engineer, was hired to conduct a preliminary survey from New Haven to Southwick, Massachusetts. In 1822 he gave a positive report: "The terrain is favorably formed for a great work of this kind and a canal may be formed for considerable less expense per mile, than the cost of canals now in the making in the state of New York." That same year, the Connecticut legislature granted a charter to the Farmington Canal Company, and on February 4, 1823, Massachusetts granted its corresponding charter to t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14250694 ... Read more

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Chapters: Bradley Palmer State Park, Ward Reservation, Rumney Marsh Reservation, Crowninshield Island, Weir Hill, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Salem Beverly Waterway Canal, North Canal, Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Thacher Island National Wildlife Refuge, Lynn Woods Reservation. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bradley Palmer State Park -Bradley Palmer State Park is a 721-acre (2.92 km) park that features rolling meadows, lush evergreens and old carriage roads lined with rhododendrons. The Discover Hamilton Trail loops through the park. Willowdale State Forest is just north of Bradley Palmer. The park is currently used as the home field for home meets of the Masconomet Regional High School Cross-county Team. The park is the former estate of Bradley Palmer, a noted attorney of the early 20th-century. During the 1960s and '70s the park was the location of the Massachusetts Civil Defense Training Academy. The academy utilized the rooms of the Willow Dale estate as classrooms, dormitory and mess facilities. A disaster town was constructed in a clearing apx. One-quarter mile east and consisted of a burn house, five story rappelling tower, shed class rooms and four collapse building simulators. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5734319 ... Read more

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Chapters: Middlesex Fells Reservation. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Middlesex Fells Reservation -The Middlesex Fells Reservation is a 2,575-acre (10.42 km) park principally used for walking, dog walking, hiking, running, mountain biking, rock climbing and skiing. Features of the park include Bellevue and Spot Ponds (used as back-up reservoirs for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority), two observation towers featuring scenic views of Boston and the surrounding area, many vernal pools. In the summer months, sailing lessons and boat rentals are offered on Spot Pond. Today the park surrounds two currently inactive reservoirs, Spot Pond and the Fells Reservoir, and the three (North, Middle, and South) active reservoirs supplying the town of Winchester. Spot Pond and the Fells Reservoir are part of the Wachusett water system, one of six primary water systems that feed metropolitan Boston's waterworks. Trailheads are accessible from Interstate 93 at exits 33 and 34. Created in 1891 and managed by the Commonwealth starting in 1893, the reservation was begun by the donation of "Virginia Wood" by Charles Eliot to The Trustees of Reservations. The reservation's land was once favored for timber, granite quarrying, and ice cultivation. The former mill village of "Haywardville" was located within the reservation. Many mills, including one that manufactured some of the first vulcanized rubber products, were located here. Boston Regional Medical Center was located within the Reservation along Woodland Road in Stoneham, Massachusetts, until it closed in February 1999 for financial reasons. The area around Middlesex Fells was first explored by John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1632. Kids climbing the rock near the Panther C...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2421491 ... Read more

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Chapters: Blue Hills Reservation. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Blue Hills Reservation -Blue Hills Reservation (commonly referred to by area residents as "the Blue Hills") is a 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) park primarily used for hiking and mountain biking. It is also used for both downhill skiing and cross country skiing during winter, and rock climbing (in certain areas) and horseback riding during permissible months. The park's varied terrain and scenic views, in combination with its proximity to Boston, make it a popular destination for hikers from the metropolitan area. The highest point within the reservation, Great Blue Hill in Milton, is the site of a historic weather observatory whose tower offers views of Boston and the surrounding area. Between approximately December and March, Great Blue Hill offers a ski area. Houghton's Pond and nearby Ponkapoag Pond are popular swimming and recreation areas during the summer. The ecology of the Blue Hills is diverse and includes marshes, swamps, upland and bottomland forests, meadows, and an Atlantic White Cedar bog. A number of endangered species in Massachusetts, such as the Timber Rattlesnake, reside in the reservation. Other flora and fauna include dogwood, lady's slipper, coyotes, turkey vultures, and copperheads. The reservation has affiliations with the Massachusetts Audubon Society (named for the famous ornithologist, John James Audubon). It includes the Trailside Museum, which includes indoor and outdoor animal exhibits. The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, atop Great Blue Hill, was founded in 1885, and is the oldest continuous weather recording station in the United States. Located a few miles from downtown Boston, the reservation has the distinction of being the largest conservatio...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3556738 ... Read more

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Chapters: Horseneck Beach State Reservation, Freetown-Fall River State Forest, H.h. Richardson Historic District of North Easton, Demarest Lloyd State Park, Borderland State Park, Slocum's River Reserve, Westport Town Farm, Acushnet Cedar Swamp, Greater Taunton Area, Massasoit State Park, Watson Pond State Park. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Horseneck Beach State Reservation -The state reservation is an oddly-shaped peninsula sticking out from Westport's mainland and mostly into Rhode Island Sound (southwest) and Buzzards Bay (southeast). The reservation contains about 600 acres (2.4 km) (or 2 miles) of barrier beach, marshland, and a protected estuary habitat. Most of the marshland is concentrated at the northern portion of the peninsula bordering Horseneck Channel and The Let. The beach is located along the southern portion of the peninsula, bordering Rhode Island Sound and Buzzards Bay. Gooseberry Neck is an offshoot peninsula of the parent Horseneck peninsula. It divides part of Rhode Island Sound from Buzzards Bay in the Atlantic Ocean. Spread across nearly 600 acres (2.4 km) of barrier beach and salt marsh, Horseneck Beach is one of the most popular facilities in the Massachusetts State Forests and Parks system. Located at the western end of Buzzards Bay, the sandy, southwest-facing, 2-mile (3.2 km) long beach is breezy all year round, providing excellent wind surfing and a dependable respite from sweltering inland temperatures every summer. The combination of ocean beach and estuary habitat makes Horseneck one of the premier birding locations in New England. Behind the dunes near Gooseberry Neck (a rocky headland at the eastern end of the Reservation). The campground office hours are 8am10pm; the regular camping season is from mid-M...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2556443 ... Read more

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Chapters: Landforms of Dukes County, Massachusetts, Settlements in Dukes County, Massachusetts, Martha's Vineyard, Nomans Land, Manuel F. Correllus State Forest, Chappaquiddick Island, Buzzards Bay, Elizabeth Islands, Harthaven, Massachusetts, Quick's Hole, Menemsha, Massachusetts, Cape Cod and Islands, Canapitsit Channel, Vineyard Sound, Nomans Land Island National Wildlife Refuge, Robinson's Hole, Alleghany Rock. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 65. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Martha's Vineyard -Originally inhabited by the Wampanoag, Martha's Vineyard was known in their language as Noepe, or "land amid the streams." In 1642 the Wampanoag numbered somewhere around 3,000 on the island. By 1764, that number had dropped to 313. A smaller island to the south was named "Martha's Vineyard" by the English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, who sailed to the island in 1602. The name was soon transferred to the big island. It is thus the eighth-oldest surviving English place-name in the United States. Gosnold's mother-in-law and his second child, who died in infancy, were both named Martha. Gosnold perhaps named Martha's Vineyard after his daughter, who was christened in St James' Church (now St Edmundsbury Cathedral), Bury St Edmunds in the English county of Suffolk. Martha is buried in the Great Churchyard which lies in front of the Abbey ruins between St Mary's Church and the Cathedral. For some time the island was known as Martin's Vineyard (perhaps after the captain of Gosnold's ship, John Martin); many islanders up to the 1700s called it by this name. The United States Board on Geographic Names worked to standardize placename spellings in the late 19th century, including the dropping of apostrophes. Thus for a time Martha's Vineyard was officially named Marthas Vineyard, but the Boa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=62207 ... Read more

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Chapters: Cape Cod Canal, Cape Cod National Seashore, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Scusset Beach State Reservation, Nickerson State Park, South Cape Beach State Park, Cape Cod and Islands, Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway traversing the narrow neck of land that joins Cape Cod to mainland Massachusetts. Part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the canal is roughly 17.4 miles (28 km) long (approximately 7 miles, or 11.3 km, of which are cut through land) and connects Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south. The 540-foot (164.6 meter) width of the canal is spanned by the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge and two highway bridgesthe Bourne and the Sagamore. Traffic lights govern the approach of vessels over 65 feet (19.8 m), and are located at either end of the canal. The Massachusetts Maritime Academy is located on Taylors Point at the south entrance of the canal. The idea of constructing such a canal was first considered by Miles Standish of the Plymouth Colony in 1623, and Pilgrims scouted the low-lying stretch of land between the Manomet and the Scusset rivers for potential routes. William Bradford established the trading post of Aptuxcet in 1627 at the portage between the rivers. Trade with the Native Americans of Narragansett Bay and the Dutch of New Netherlands prospered and was a major factor enabling the Pilgrims to pay off their indebtedness. In 1697 the General Court of Massachusetts considered the first formal proposal to build the canal, but apparently took no action. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (by George Washington), 1791, 1803, 1818, 18241830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=39772 ... Read more