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Newton Park and Conservation Lands
ADMINISTERED BY: Parks
and Recreation
FEATURES:
The park has ample wooded areas, fields, a brook,
and wetlands. A farmers market takes place each summer on the parking
lot off Beacon Street, on land that was previously used as a city
dump.
Many activities are enjoyed here: baseball,
tennis, soccer, walking, jogging, dog walking, nature study, bird
watching, and cross-country skiing. A life course with exercise
stations is situated along the trail. The ball fields may be reserved.
HISTORY:
| 1633 |
Part of 150-acre
swamp and peat bog held as common land under a ruling by the
General Court. |
| 1848 |
The Cochituate
Aqueduct built, which runs through the park. |
| 1930s |
Alcock's Swamp
was drained, and the book was rechanneled, lowered five feet,
and partly culvert. The city acquired the land by gift, purchase,
and tax taking. City developed south half of the park. |
| 1983 |
City developed
the Beacon Street half of the park. |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
An Old Man's Walk in Cold Spring Park, by V. Eugene Vivian, PhD (plant checklist)
The Conservators' Fall 2001 lecture, by Dan
Perlman, was entitled From Cold
Spring Park to Planet Earth.
A farmers' market is held on the Beacon Street
parking lot every Tuesday afternoon from July through October.
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