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PARKLANDS for the PUBLIC Published by the Hingham Land Conservation Trust to Encourage the Use of Hingham’S Conservation and Recreation Areas PARKLANDS FOR THE PUBLIC Published by the Hingham Land Conservation Trust to encourage the use of Hingham’s Conservation and Recreation Areas “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir This 2017 edition of Parklands for the Public honors Katharine W. Reardon, Hingham Land Conservation Trust Board Chair from 2002 to 2013, for her more than 25 years of service to the Trust’s mission. PUBLIC/QUASI - PUBLIC OPEN SPACE The Hingham Land Conservation Trust AQUARION WATER COMPANY 1972–2017 Hingham is rich in open space, and not by accident. Town ACCESS POINT sentiment has long favored conservation. Civic leaders have been farsighted in their planning and public-spirited citizens have been generous in gifts and sale of land for PARCEL REFERENCE public use. Building on the early efforts of the Hingham Text on other side Friends of Conservation, the Hingham Land Conservation Trust works to acquire, preserve and maintain exceptional properties in Hingham. We are grateful for the generous support that makes this work possible. The Hingham Land Conservation Trust This 2017 update uses original 1982 plan compiled by Cap Vinal (scale and boundaries Box 10, Hingham, Massachusetts 02043 approximated), based on the 1974 Town of Hingham Highway map by Perkins Engineering. Hinghamlandtrust.org 1600s this was the site of a herring fish WHITNEY AND THAYER TRIPHAMMER the HCC. The northern 10 acres were by the Marchesiani family in 1934. As weir (trap)—origin of the Weir River’s WOODS (TTOR) Established by POND/TRIPHAMMER purchased by the HCC from abutters. with many currently wooded properties, name. Derby Academy gave 3 acres. 32the Whitney Woods Association gift 46,47WOODS (HCC) With its rugged, forest- Access to Main Street was donated by these lands were mostly held open Birding site. of 643 acres in 1933, this reservation ed shore, this pond is one of the gems the Goodlatte family along with an ease- for pasture and agriculture. More than has since been enlarged by other gifts, of Hingham parklands. It was created ment given by Wilder Memorial. Two lots 10,000 tomato plants were grown here, HULL STREET PLAYGROUND including 23 acres from the late Mrs. by damming Accord Brook in the 17th extending the park’s southeast corner along with cucumbers, strawberries and & LOVETT LAND (HRC/HCC) Ezra Thayer. 114.5 of the 824 acres Century for a sawmill. The pond is popu- were given by Richard and Virginia other vegetables. Through the good 19This 5.8-acre neighborhood playground in this forested area are in Hingham. lar for hiking, skating, paddling and fish- Kurtzman (3.6 acres) and Robert and will of the Marchesiani family and the includes a baseball field and playground The area borders Wompatuck State ing. Prior to 2010, the dam and the fish Carolyn Garvie (6.75 acres). Further developer of Black Rock Golf Course, equipment. In winter, the field occasion- Park, providing a stretch of unbroken ladders were completely reconstructed. protection of historic Glad Tidings Plain this property was obtained in 2001 in ally floods and freezes for informal skat- wood land more than four miles long The 97.8 acres include land on the north was provided by the 2006 CPC-funded exchange for an inaccessible conserva- ing. The adjoining 10.5-acre Rockland with twelve miles of trails. The Bigelow side of Triphammer Pond and along the purchase of 2.4 acres of developable tion tract on Old Ward Street. This land Street/Tugmanug Lane parcel, donated Boulder, a large glacial erratic, is best Weir River. Completing the preservation land behind 730 Main Street and con- connects Main Street to more than 100 The sixth edition of Parklands for the Public updates the map first published by the to HCC by Sarah Lovett in 2012, is a mix Hingham Land Conservation Trust (HLCT) 35 years ago now. This edition includes reached on Boulder Lane from the Rt. of the shores of Triphammer Pond, the servation restrictions donated by own- acres of conservation land in Hingham of wetland and upland. Limited trail sys- and to the Norwell water well fields. It the Town of Hingham acquisition of the Lehner Property (see #58) — the most valu- 3A entrance. Maud Milliken Memorial 23 acres of Triphammer Woods were ers of 10 acres of adjoining back land. tem but no formal trailhead or parking. borders Accord Brook and McKenna able land conservation project since the town adopted the Community Preservation Path, planted with rhododendrons and once the residence of Francis J. and Trail access from South Pleasant Street azaleas near Brass Kettle Brook, is clos- Marsh and includes a spectacular pine Act (CPA) in 2001. Along with adjoining acres previously preserved by HLCT and the FOUNDRY POND AREA (HCC) Elizabeth H. Thompson. Acquired by the near #32 (sign will be posted following est to James Hill Lane. Access from Rt. grove. The mown field (entrance marked Hingham Conservation Commission (HCC), this acquisition creates 100 contiguous Created by damming the Weir state in 1995, this land includes 14 acres official naming of the Lehner property at 20 3A in Cohasset near Sohier Street, at of white pines, red maples, American by granite posts) on Main Street recalls acres of wildlife and watershed protection and a varied trails area. River, most likely in the late 18th Century, 2018 Town Meeting). Also, when nurs- the pond was used sequentially by two Turkey Hill or through James Hill Lane beech and other hardwoods, 8 acres of ery school is closed, park behind Wilder the agricultural history of the town. Cart The areas in green on the updated Parklands map show the principal open space. ironworks and a wool scouring plant, from Leavitt Street. oak/hickory forest, and a small wooded Memorial Building on Main Street and paths through the property make for all of which burned. The Sportsman’s swamp. Driveway between #75 and access there via Jacobs Meadow gate. easy walking. Outside of school hours, Some are too small to be delineated, such as Jackass Park (on Main Street), Fountain CRANBERRY POND (HCC) Club acquired the pond for fishing and #128 Pope’s Lane leads to small gravel park at the Middle School across Main Square (at North & Lincoln Streets), and the shipyard parcel now home to the DCR Also known as Bouve Pond, and LAZELL STREET STRIP later sold it to the town. The 32-acre parking area. Street, but easier to park on Scotland intermodal building—the South Shore gateway to seasonal ferry access to the Boston 33once a cranberry bog, the pond is in and WADLEIGH’S RILL parcel includes the salt marsh below the Street and access trail system there. Harbor Islands. While not shown, conservation easements held by the HCC or HLCT a 13.8-acre preserve that seasonally LEAVITT STREET 59,60(HCC) This 3.7-acre strip between dam and an abandoned quarry. Access also protect views and natural resources. And private institutions such as Derby attracts birders and skaters. Access CONSERVATION LAND (HCC) Lazell Street and Wompatuck State McKENNA MARSH, GLADYS from Kilby Street (between #97 and Academy and Notre Dame Academy hold lands that protect the environment and near 41 French Street. 48This wooded strip of 16.3 acres was Park protects the Fulling Mill Pond aqui- CUSHING PARCEL & #103). Across Rockland Street, Amonte 73 beautify the streetscapes. given to the town by the late Wallace fer. WADLEIGH’S RILL on Lazell Street, SCOTLAND STREET MEADOW; Meadow (CPA funded acquisition of 3.3 MORE-BREWER Marden. A trail connecting Pope’s Lane a ¾-acre gift to the town from Edward WANDERS DRIVE LAND (HCC) More acres) has grassy areas, wetlands and PARK / BREWER The map includes some accessible open space areas in contiguous towns. In to Leavitt Street was named for Edgar Wadleigh, preserves a spring, a small than 100 acres here include a fresh- a stand of tupelo trees adjoining the 34,35RESERVATION (HCC) Francis Brewer, Wompatuck State Park and Whitney and Thayer Woods, land in Hingham, Cohasset T.P. Walker. stream and a rocky hill. An area for water marsh once used as a waterfowl Weir River. On Rockland Street west son of John R. Brewer, spent boy- and Scituate combines to create large areas for hiking and wildlife habitat. Great nature study. preserve, with a beaver dam of unusu- of Kilby, Sidney’s Pond (CPA funded hood days on his father’s Worlds End McCORMACK PROPERTY (HCC) Esker Park and Osprey Overlook Park in Weymouth protect the ecology of the al length and linearity. Accord Brook acquisitions totaling 5.1 acres) is within Farm; and, possibly inspired by that Acquired with CPA funds in 2003, Back River, as well as the view. The Weir River Estuary Park in Hull, Cohasset and SWANSON HOLLOW (HCC) threads through the area, making it the Weir River ACEC. Mostly upland, experience, began in 1884 to purchase 495.85 acres of rocky woods buffer the Hingham protects the Weir River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) This level-floored, 5-acre hard- important to water supplies of Hingham with some wetlands and pond frontage. sheep grazing land at Great Hill. Nearly Leavitt Street entrance to the former 61 through conservation of parcels such as the Amonte Meadow. wood pocket is contained by unusual- and Norwell, which has town wells and Access west of 127 Rockland Street. a century after Francis Brewer began Hingham Ammunition Depot Annex, ly high steep banks of unconsolidated many acres of publicly owned land abut- (Do not use private driveway.) No formal buying the land, in 1980, Dr. and Mrs. now part of Wompatuck State Park.
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