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Newton Park and Conservation Lands

9
   Bullough's Pond

LOCATION: Walnut St. and Commonwealth Avenue.

Enter from Bullough Park Road.

Location map

Trail map (Buy a trail guide)

Aerial photo

SIZE: 9 acres

 

ADMINISTERED BY:

Pond - Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Periphery - Parks and Recreation

FEATURES:

Walk around the lake, sit on a bench and watch the ducks. A recent dredging promises to slow down the eutrophication process that's common in shallow, man-made ponds, especially those in highly developed areas.

HISTORY:

1664 John Spring build grist mill on Smelt Brook, creating the mill pond.
1880s Renamed Silver Lake and used for harvesting ice, stored in an icehouse on the riverbank and delivered to Newton homes in summer.
1897 Pond landscaped for residential development. Dam was replaced with concrete.
1992 Pond dredging paid for by $260,000 in state funding.

ADVOCATES & CARETAKERS:

Bullough's Pond Association
598 Walnut Street
Newtonville, MA 02460

 Gene Mackles painting of Bullough's Pond

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The Boston Globe said that Diana Muir's Reflections in Bullough's Pond is "an extraordinary book, a combination of polemic and all-encompassing scholarship."

Fall at Bullough's Pond (detail), by Mary Beth Maisel

Fall at Bullough's Pond (detail), by Mary Beth Maisel

   
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