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Newton Park and Conservation Lands
LOCATION: Newtonville
Location
and driving directions on Google Maps to:
Dexter Road
Other maps and aerial
photos: Bing
Nearby: Bullough's Pond
SIZE:
0.25 acres
LONGEST WALK : Parcel is visible from road (no marked trails)
ACQUIRED: 2004
ADMINISTERED BY: Newton Conservators, Inc.
FEATURES:
Steep, wooded slope with wildflowers and ferns.
HISTORY:
1990s
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Jeremiah and Carolyn Fine Friedman purchase a house on one acre of land that extends from Prospect Park downhill to Dexter Road. |
| 2003 |
Carolyn Fine Friedman receives legal advice that her property could be divided into two buildable lots fronting on Prospect Park, each one suitable for a large new house. |
| 2004 |
Friedman subdivides land, and donates downhill parcel to Newton Conservators to help "see nature survive the war that we humans continue to wage upon it." |
| 2006-2009 |
The Conservators oversee tree pruning. Volunteers from the neighborhood remove invasive plants and replace them with native trees, shrubs, and flowers. |
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