A privately-administered, charitable corpo- ration founded for conservation purposes in 1891 to preserve for the public, places of natural beauty and historic interest in Massachusetts. 1 SEVENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT CONTENTS Page Page Officers and Committees ... 3 Governor Hutchinson's Field . 49 The Trustees 5 Mashpee River 50 History 8 Medfield Rhododendrons ... 51 Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting . 12 Menemsha Hills 52 Properties Held by The Trustees . 25 Misery Islands 53 Management of Reservations 27 Mission House 55 Founders 85 Monument Mountain .... 56 Life Associates 92 Mount Ann Park 57 Subscriptions and Donations . 99 Naumkeag 58 Act of Incorporation . 109 Noon Hill 59 By-Laws no Notchview Reservation .... 60 Financial Statements . 114 The Old Manse 61 Agassiz Rock 29 Old Town Hill 62 Bartholomew's Cobble .... 32 Pamet River 63 Bryant Homestead 34 Pegan Hill 64 Canaumet: Lowell Holly ... 35 Petticoat Hill 65 Cape Poge Wildlife Reservation 38 Pierce House 65 Chapel brook 39 Pine and Hemlock Knoll ... 66 Charles River Peninsula ... 40 Redemption Rock 66 Chesterfield Gorge 40 Rocky Narrows 67 Richard T. Crane, Jr. Memorial Rocky Woods 67 Reservation 41 Royalston Falls 70 Crowninshield Island .... 44 Stevens-Coolidge Place .... 71 Dinosaur Footprints .... 45 Tantiusques Reservation ... 73 Doane Falls 45 Tyringham Cobble 73 Elliott Laurel 46 Charles W. Ward Reservation . Fork Factory Brook .... 46 74 Whitney Thayer . Glendale Falls 47 and Woods 76 Halibut Point 47 Wasque 77 Holmes Reservation 48 World's End 81 Cover World's End Reservation — view of Planter's Hill from World's End. Photo by Everett Tatreau. 1 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 1968 Charles R. Strickland, President Charles E. Mason, Jr., Vice President Henry R. Guild, Jr., Secretary Augustus P. Loring, Treasurer STANDING COMMITTEE John M. Woolsey, Jr., Cambridge, Chairman Daniel J. Coolidge, Boston Arthur M. Jones, Jr., Newbury Donald R. Dwight, South Hadley John W. Kunhardt, Dedham Robert P. Fitzgerald, Milton Augustus P. Loring, Beverly Richard L. Frothingham, Dedham George G. Loring, Manchester Henry R. Guild, Jr., Dover Arthur H. Phillips, Ipswich John T. Hemenway, Milton Sidney N. Shurcliff, Boston Charles R. Strickland, Plymouth ADVISORY COUNCIL Richard Borden, Concord Henry R. Guild, Needham Laurence M. Channing, Brookline Arthur T. Lyman, Westwood David C. Crockett, Ipswich Lawrence K. Miller, Pittsfield WiNTHROP S. Dakin, Northampton Miss Amelia Peabody, Dover Charles W. Eliot, II, Cambridge Hon. Elliot L. Richardson, Brookline Roland B. Greeley, Lexington Hon. Francis W. Sargent, Dover Fletcher Steele, Pittsford, N. Y. INVESTMENT COMMITTEE Richard L. Frothingham, Chairman John P. Chase Charles E. Mason, Jr. John L. Gardner Henry A. Wood, Jr. ADMINISTRATION Gordon Abbott, Jr., Director Loring Conant, Executive Secretary Nathan W. Bates, Coordinator of Reservations 224 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts 02186 Telephone 698-2066 Council Member^ The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland Charles R. Strickland 3 Early morning fog softens shoreline view at The Crane Reservation. 4 1 1 THE TRUSTEES — 1968 Robert C. Alsop Mrs. William C. Cox Stockbridge 1971 Cohasset 1972 Oliver F. Ames Mrs. Cornelius Crane Boston 1973 Ipswich 1970 Charles B. Barnes Mrs. Winthrop M. Crane, III Westwood 1 97 Dalton 1972 Randolph Barton Mrs. Frank W. Crocker Beverly Farms 1971 Westwood 1972 Sidney L. Beals David C. Crockett Newton i973 Ipswich 1973 Richard E. Bennink Edward Cunningham, Sr. Boston 1969 Dover 1971 Mrs. William A. Berridge Winthrop S. Dakin South Egremont 1969 Northampton 1973 *Charles S. Bird David T. Dana, Jr. East Walepole Lenox 1972 Richard Borden Mrs. Richard E. Danielson Concord 1969 Groton 1970 Philip W. Bourne Stuart DeBard Beverly 1972 Hingham 1972 George Brett Nathaniel T. Dexter Waban 1970 Boston 1969 J. O. Brew Donald R. Dwight Cambridge 1973 South Hadley 1969 Miss Dorothy A. Brown *Charles W. Eliot Gloucester 1972 Cambridge Morgan G. Bulkeley John Eliot Pittsfield 1970 Cambridge 1972 Mrs. George A. Bushee James M. Faulkner Newbury 1973 Boston 1970 Thomas D. Cabot Oliver D. Filley, Jr. Weston 1970 Far Hills, N. J. 1969 Laurence M. Channing James D. Fitzgerald Brookline 1973 Milton 1969 Conrad Chapman Robert P. Fitzgerald Boston 1969 Milton 1972 John P. Chase Thomas Flint Boston 1973 Concord 1972 Philip P. Chase *Edward W. Forbes Milton 1970 Cambridge Theodore Chase F. Murray Forbes, Jr. Dover 1972 Boston 1970 Charles E. Cheever H. A. Crosby Forbes Medfield 1972 Cambridge 1973 LORING CONANT Charles H. W. Foster Dedham 1972 Boston 1 97 Daniel J. Coolidge IElmer Foster Boston 1970 Greenfield Francis P. Coolidge Richard L. Frothingham Harvard 1971 Dedham 1972 Hamilton Coolidge John L. Gardner Brookline 1970 Beverly 1973 11 1 Herbert P. Gleason Augustus P. Loring Boston 1973 Beverly 1973 HoLLis T. Gleason Mrs. Caleb Loring, Jr. Cohasset 1969 Prides Crossing 1971 John J. Glessner George G. Loring Boston 1 97 Manchester 1969 Roland B. Greeley George M. Lovejoy, Jr. Lexington 1973 Weston 1 97 Henry R. Guild Arthur T. Lyman Needham 1973 Westwood 1973 Henry R. Guild, Jr. Charles E. Mason, Jr. Boston 1970 Newton 1969 Thomas Hale R. Carey McIntosh Vineyard Haven 1973 Arlington 1972 William C. Hammond, Jr. Rustin McIntosh Manchester 1969 Tyringham 1970 Francis W. Hatch, Jr. Vincent Merrill Beverly 1970 Boston 1970 John Hay Henry H. Meyer Brewster 1973 Belmont 1969 John T. Hemenway Lawrence K. Miller Milton 1973 Pittsfield 1972 IAndrew H. Hepburn Mrs. Henry Davis Minot Concord Boston 1969 Mrs. John W. Higgins James J. Minot Worcester 1972 Beverly 1969 Henry S. Howe Otis N. Minot Canton 1972 Lexington 1969 George Howland Allen H. Morgan Needham 1970 Wayland 1973 Llewellyn Howland, Jr. D. Percy Morgan South Dartmouth 1972 Stockbridge 1969 Miss Louisa Hunnewell Mrs. Myles Morgan Wellesley 1970 Worcester 1972 Dana B. Jefferson, Jr. Mrs. Joseph Morrill Medfield 1971 Great Barrington 1972 Arthur M. Jones, Jr. Alva Morrison Manchester 1970 Cambridge 1972 George Keyes James B. Moseley Pepperell 1972 Boston 1 971 John W. Kimball fGEORGE S. MuMFORD Andover 1971 Dover John W. Kunhardt Charles E. Paine Dedham 1971 Chestnut Hill 1972 Mrs. George Lewis, Sr. C. W. Eliot Paine Sherborn 1971 Chestnut Hill 1971 George Lewis AuGusTiN H. Parker, Jr. Sherborn 1970 Sherborn 1973 Robert Livermore, Jr. James P. Parker Boston 1 97 Brookline 1971 Edward B. Long John W. Peirce Cohasset 1969 Topsfield 1970 6 1 1 James^H. Perkins Russell B. Stearns Westwood 1969 Dedham 1971 Arthur H. Phillips Fletcher Steele Ipswich 1971 Pittsford, N. Y. 1973 fWiLLiAM Phillips Mrs. Abbot Stevens Beverly North Andover 1973 David Pickman Horace N. Stevens, Jr. Bedford 1971 North Andover 1971 Roger Pierce, Jr. Mrs. Robert W. Stoddard Westwood 1 97 Worcester 1970 David E. Place David B. Stone Cohasset 1970 Dedham 1970 Calvin Plimpton Theodore L. Storer Amherst 1970 Cambridge 1972 Thomas Emerson Proctor Charles R. Strickland Hamikon I973 Plymouth 1969 William Lowell Putnam Mrs. John B. Swann Springfield Stockbridge 1971 Mrs. Livingston Rice Philip H. Theopold Williamstown i973 Boston 1969 Artemas p. Richardson William H. Vanderbilt Brookline 1969 Chestnut Hill 1973 Elliot L. Richardson Mrs. Diana B. Vauclain Brookline 1969 Edgartown 1969 Richard M. Russell Samuel Wakeman Essex 1973 Hingham 1973 Robert H. Russell Philip S. Weld South Hadley 1970 Gloucester 1971 Richard Saltonstall fGEORGE B. Wells Sherborn 1972 Charlton City Robert Saltonstall Robert K. Wheeler North Andover 1972 Great Barrington 1971 Francis W. Sargent Thomas B. Williams Dover 1969 Dover 1970 R. MiNTURN Sedgwick Frederic Winthrop Dedham 1972 Ipswich 1971 George C. Shattuck Thomas C. Wojtkowski Brookline 1970 Pittsfield 1972 Henry L. Shattuck Cornelius A. Wood Boston 1970 Andover 1971 Albert C. Sherman, Jr. Henry A. Wood, Jr. Newton 1971 Boston 1973 Sidney N. Shurcliff Charles F. Woodard Boston 1970 Medfield 1971 Marshall Simonds John M. Woolsey, Jr. Boston 1 97 Cambridge 1973 *Life Member of the Corporation. All others elected for terms expiring on the d of the Annual Meeting of the Corporation, the last Wednesday in January of year designated. jDeccased. 7 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT' A Short History of The Trustees of Reservations 1891-1968 It was the end of the Nineteenth Century. The Hfe that most New Englanders knew was the small town or the farm. White clapboard houses with their shading elms and maples; big red barns, hayrakes and wagons, still characterized the countryside. The meadows were bright with daisies and black-eyed Susan and the air was filled with the soft scent of clover and the sound of insects in the sun. But this quiet, country world was changing. From 1870 to 1900, the population of the United States would double from 38 to 76 million, and more than one-third of its people would live in cities. Another generation would see the end of the dirt road and the horse and buggy and the arrival of the gasoline- powered automobile and a revolution in living which would sweep the nation. Boston was a part of this changing scene—the emergence of the urban era. Since the end of the Civil War, the com- munity had grown into the nation's fourth largest manufacturing center. Ironworks, glass factories, foundries — hundreds of plants, large and small — sprang up, and the city spread out into the suburbs. Open space along the rivers and waterfront, and woodland areas disappeared as homes and industries used up the land. With growing concern, a young landscape Charles Eliot architect watched the land disappear. His 1859-1897 name was Charles Eliot. Widely travelled and well educated, Eliot was the son of Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard University. He had seen and studied the public parks and gardens of Europe in London, Paris, Stockholm and Venice. Open space, playgrounds, scenic vistas and historic sites were a vital part of these communities, but in Boston there seemed to be little thought for preservation of natural beauty.