Breakheart Reservation / Alison C. Simcox and Douglas L. Heath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simcox, Alison C., Author.

Heath, Douglas., Author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parks--Massachusetts--History--Pictorial works.

Parks.

Massachusetts--History--Pictorial works.

Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations, maps, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2013]

Summary:

Comprising over 600 acres of woodlands, wetlands, and hilly terrain, Breakheart Reservation has expansive views that reach south to Boston, north to New Hampshire, and east to the Atlantic Ocean. What began as a parcel of common land awarded to new settlers arriving in Saugus in the early 1700s is today considered a gem in the Massachusetts state park system. In the 1890s, businessman Benjamin Johnson and two friends bought the land to create a private hunting retreat called Breakheart Hill Forest. The tranquil forest was catapulted into the limelight in 1900 when their caretaker was brutally murdered. Three decades later, Johnson and his partners sold the land to the state. It became a camp for the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps and was later transformed into a recreational area.

Contents:

Prehistory to colonial settlement

Mills on the Saugus River

Private forest and the crime of the decade

Breakheart Hill Farm and the Parkers

The 1930s and the CCC

Modern age.

OCLC:

881198851