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By Adaela Mclaughlin Second Edition [Cover Illustration] by Adaela McLaughlin Second Edition [Inside Cover] The goal of this book is to provide the citizens of Arlington, Massachusetts with a description of the town's public open spaces in the hopes of enhancing enjoyment of these places. A series of five walking tours is offered that allow one to connect a variety of habitats in a suburban area, including woodlands, marsh, lake, river and brook, by walking from one to the other. A listing of the open spaces which are not included on the walking tours is also provided. Original publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management Greenways Grants Program in 1994. The Arlington Conservation Commission gratefully acknowledges that the second printing of Walking the Open Spaces of Arlington, Massachusetts was supported, in part, by a grant from the Arlington Arts Council, a local agency, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. All proceeds from the sale of this book go towards the Arlington Conservation Commission Education Fund. [Page 1] Walking the Open Spaces of Arlington, Massachusetts Written and Designed by Adaela McLaughlin Illustrations by Laura Rallis Maps by Don Tremblay Kevin O'Brien of Arlington Planning and Community Development and citizens of Arlington Copyright held by the Arlington Conservation Commission Printed on recycled paper 1994 Second Printing 1996 [page 2] Special thanks to all those who have helped with this publication: Susan Brent, Chairperson of the Arlington Conservation Commission Alan McClennen, Kevin O'Brien, Clare Hurley and Alice Norman of the Arlington Planning and Community Development Office Judy Hodges, Steve Mattingly, Dot Maher, Geri Tremblay, Dick Bowler, and Roly Chaput of the Arlington Conservation Commission Bruce Wheltle and Elsie Fiore, former Arlington Conservation Commission members Stew Sanders, Lee Taylor and Eric Anderson of the Mystic River Watershed Association . Karsten Hartel, Gene Benson, Karen Thomas, Heidi Schultz and Mike Sacarny of the Vision 20/20 Environmental Task Force Jack Johnson of BBN Software Products John Andrews of Citizens for Lexington Conservation Rick Van de Poll of Antioch New England, Keene, New Hampshire Bernice Jones and Debra Hayes of the Arlington Park and Recreation Commission Oakes Plimpton, author of Robbins Farm Benjamin Reeve of the Hill's Pond Committee Taintor Davis Child of the Garden for Youth Ernestine Kaliontzis of the Arlington Garden Club Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge, Dorchester Leslie Kiernan, Cheryl Bourjet, Deirdre Tanton and Sharon Drujon of the Healer's Support Group This book was written by the author to satisfy a degree requirement in a Master of Science in Environmental Communications Program at Antioch New England, Keene, New Hampshire. The author has been a resident of Arlington, Massachusetts, for seven years. [Page 3] Table of Contents Open Space 6 A History of Land Use 9 Ecology of Arlington 13 The Linear Parks 15 The Future 16 Map of Open Spaces 18 Map Key 20 Minuteman Bikeway Tour 21 1 Magnolia Field and Community Gardens and Thorndike Field 24 2 Spy Pond Park (Pond Lane), Spy Pond Field and Scannell Field 25 3 Jefferson Cutter House and Whittemore Park 29 4 Old Burial Ground 30 5 Town Hall Garden 30 6 Adamian and Water Street Trust Properties 31 7 Wellington Park 32 8 Brattle Street Conservation Land 32 9 Arlington Veteran Memorial Recreation Center 10 The Old Schwamb Mill 33 11 Hurd Field (the Heights Field) 34 12 Arlington Reservoir 34 13 Mount Gilboa 37 14 Great Meadows 39 Waterwalk 42 15 Alewife Brook Reservation 44 16 Bicentennial Park 48 [Page 4] Walking the Open Spaces of Arlington, Massachusetts 17 Prince Hall Cemetery 49 18 Mystic River Reservation 50 19 Parallel Street Playground 52 20 Meadowbrook Park 53 21 Cooke's Hollow 55 Northern Exposure 58 22 Window-On-The-Mystic 60 23 Ridge Street Conservation Land 64 24 Mohawk Road Conservation Land 65 25 Forest Street Conservation Land 65 26 Turkey Hill Reservation and Brand Street Conservation Land 66 27 Pheasant Avenue Playground 69 28 Stone Road Conservation Land 69 Heights Hike 71 29 Park Circle 73 30 Crusher Lot 75 31 Menotomy Rocks Park and Spring Street Conservation Land 76 32 Concord Turnpike Conservation Land 79 33 Brackett School Playground 80 34 Robbins Farm 81 Playground Plodding 85 35 Poet's Corner 87 36 Rublee Street Conservation Land (and Sutherland Woods) 88 37 Hibbert Street Playground 89 38 Inverness Road Conservation Land 89 39 Florence Avenue Playground 90 [Page 5] Additional Conservation Land 91 40 Philemon Street Conservation Land (and Whipple Hill) 41 Woodside Lane Conservation Land 92 42 Hemlock Street Conservation Land 92 43 Park Avenue #53 Rear Conservation Land 92 44 Short Street Conservation Land 93 45 Kilsythe Road Conservation Land 93 91 Additional Playgrounds 94 46 Bishop School 94 47 Buzzell Field 94 48 Crosby School 94 49 Cutter School 94 50 Foster Street Playground 95 51 Hardy School 95 52 Locke School 95 53 North Union Playground 95 54 Ottoson Junior High Fields 95 55 Parmenter School 95 56 Peirce, W. A. Field (Arlington High School) 57 Peirce School Playground 96 58 Waldo Road Playground 96 Index 97 [image: 5-1 yarrow] [Page 6] Walking the Open Spaces of Arlington, Massachusetts Open Space The Town of Arlington is 3,518 acres in size (5.5 square miles). It contains approximately 800 acres of open space, including Great Meadows in Lexington (185 acres) and open water (280 acres). A population of 44,630 gives the town a density of 8,000 people per square mile. (World density is 90 people per sqUare mile of land.) Arlington has 18 acres of open space per every 1000 inhabitants. While these provide a fabulous storehouse of nature's treasures for an urban area, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) ranked Arlington as sixth of its 37 constituent communities in the need for additional natural sites and open space. Only Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Watertown and Winthrop were ranked higher in need.! "Open space," as a term, is extremely broad, and denotes any type of land without commercial or residential buildings. In the federal law, open space has been defined as any land located in an urban area which has value for park and recreation purposes, conservation of natural resources or historic, architectural or scenic purposes. At the state level, open space. is usually grouped with recreation land and separately from natural land, however, recreation land can be in a natural, wild, open or landscaped condition. Arlington's mapped open spaces are protected by the Massachusetts Constitution Article 97 amendments, which state that a two-third vote of each branch of the General Court is required to change the use of public lands. In 1894, Arlington adopted 1882 Mass. Act 154 which declared that all public parks obtained under this act were to be forever open and maintained as public parks. For this reason, the term "park" can designate powerful protection of land. However, park lands can be 1 Metropolitan District Commissison. Land Acquisition Pro!!I<lm. December. 1992. p. F-4. [Page 7] managed in very different ways, for example, as mowed grass or as wooded areas. These are very different in their ecological makeup; the former requires the use of pesticides, herbicides and considerable human intervention with the corresponding loss of much wildlife, soil and water quality, while the latter is more sustainable in nature, thus more able to maintain its own ecological integrity. The open spaces of Arlington fall under the jurisdiction of various town entities, serve different purposes and are accorded differing degrees of protection. Lands are under the jurisdiction of the Conservation Commission, the Park and Recreation Commission, the general heading of the Town of Arlington or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Arlington Conservation Commission is charged with protecting wildlife habitat and fisheries, educating the public, enhancing the acquisition of open space, protecting water resources from pollution, preventing storm and flood damage, preserving -and promoting protection of the water and groundwater supply and ensuring compliance with the Massachusetts Weltands Protection Act and the local wetland by-law. The commission was created by Town Meeting in 1966 and is steward for 21 acres of land. The Arlington Park and Recreation Commission encourages and supports a broad variety of recreation programs for all ages. It initiates and oversees programs to revitalize the town's parks and playgrounds. It strives to maintain and protect the town's open spaces and acquire additional land, where appropriate. The commission was created in 1973 and is steward for 162 acres of land. Operating under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MDC is steward for 16,000 acres of land in the Metropolitan Parks System as well as 120,000 acres of watershed and reservoir systems. As steward for the park system, the MDC is committed to planning, acquiring and managing properties; to preserving the landscape's natural and cultural diversity; to educating the public; to providing facilities for active recreation and healthful exercize; and to protecting and managing watershed lands in order to conserve pure water for human consumption. The open spaces in Arlington serve diverse purposes, yet they [Page 8] Walking the Open Spaces of Arlington, Massachusetts are bestmanaged and protected by a single, comprehensive plan. While walking these spaces, note what is most enjoyable about them, whether it be the quiet, the view, observing wildlife or providing a place for reflection. Noting how open space can be best utilized by the entire community-- as Native Americans say, by both twoleggeds and four-Ieggeds, both large and small-- is a great benefit to planning the use of open space. 9vtacrarcl [image: 8-1 mallard] [Page 9] A History of Land Use The first human dwellers in New England arrived approximately 11,000 years ago.
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