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Methuen
 
AROUND THE CITY

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==Green spaces==
Burnham Road Playground and skate park.

Forest Lake: 978-983-8590. Take Hampshire Road to Ridgewood Lane. Swimming, fishing and some boating. Purchase season stickers for swimming for $30 at Forest Lake.

Gill Avenue Playground.

Greycourt State Park, driveway entrance next to Searles building on Pleasant Street; 26 landscaped acres on the former [http://www.dupontcastle.com/castles/tenney.htm Tenney estate.] <br> 
Read about the [http://www.treasure-adventure.com/massachusetts.html Treasure of Tenney's Grey Court Castle.]

Hillsie Pond, Milk Street; 

Searles Pond, Jackson Street.

Merrimack River Trail: To get there, park along Tobey Avenue and cross Merrimack Street (Route 110).

Neil Playstead on Lawrence Street.

Nevins Bird Sanctuary, behind police station, 90 Hampshire St.

Riverside Park, Riverside Drive.

Riverwalk Park, Osgood Street.

Schruender Park: Take Jason Avenue to Riverview Boulevard to the park, along the Merrimack River.

Town Forest, off Hampshire Road, near Forest Lake.

Veteran's Park off Milk Street.

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Searles Pond, MA

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Natural Features
Brooks Bartlett, Griffin and Sawyer Brooks – flow to Merrimack in western section of Methuen
Forest Lake
Off Hampshire Rd.
52 acres including City Beach and conservation area. Had ice houses. See Town Forest
listing above.
Harris Brook Site of former flax and saw mills.
Hills Pond
Pleasant Valley &
Milk Sts.
Located on Hills Farm.
Merrimack River *
Southern and eastern boundaries of Methuen. River banks are important including views
across the river to other communities. Lack of public access to river, bottom land along the
Merrimack River thought to be best agricultural land east of the Connecticut River Valley.
Site of former Bea’s Sandwich Shop now town owned to be converted to boat launch just
west of Rt. 93. There are a couple of islands in the river, the largest being Pine Island
which is opposite the Armory.
Mystic Pond
Rt. 93 & Pelham
St.
Ice pond on which there was an ice house. Pond was relocated for the construction of Rt.
93.
Spicket River From Derry, NH to Lawrence in a north-south direction, three sections divided by two
dams: Nevins Pond and Wildlife Area, Section between Lowell Street Dam and Music Hall
Dam, and section between Music Hall/Organ Hall Dam and Lawrence. Spicket Falls Dam.
Searles Pond
Jackson St.
8 acres. Former recreational pond.

Open Space
Hampstead Street Boulder, an original boundary marker for road from 1720s, glacial.
Merrimack Park
Rt. 110
Late 19th c. trolley park, across from Armory. Along the Lowell-Lawrence-Haverhill
Street Railway Company line. Park built by trolley line. Also could come by boat from
Lawrence.
Merrimack Valley
Country Club
210 Howe St.
1902. Golf course designed by Donald Ross (designer of early courses in Pinehurst, NC
and throughout country) in 1910. Ross designs were responsive to landscape, not
contrived. Course in Chapter 61B.
Pie Hill
Rt. 213
At confluence at Hawkes and Bare Meadow Brooks, near Rt. 495, impending 40B
development with 280 units. One area has the largest concentration of spotted turtles in the
area.
Pine Island
In Merrimack
River
Accessible only by boat.
Spicket Falls
Riverwalk Park
48-50 Osgood St.
1.5 acres. Below falls, Spicket River has an S-curve with a stone wall (mortar) on one side.
Site of the former Merrimac (later Gaunt) mills. Established in 1996
Tenney Estate &
Park
39 Pleasant St.
Grey Court (1890-1893), Carrere & Hastings were architects for building, Ernest Bowditch
designed grounds. House destroyed by fire in 1977. In 1951 Tenneys had given 26 acres
to town for High School and sold the rest to the Basilian Salvatorian Order of Melkite Rite
Seminary. Chapel built in 1960 and Tenney Stable remodeled in 1966. Stone wall
enclosed gardens in which grow vegetables, fruit trees. Dairy barns remain.
Town Forest
Ridgewood Lane
72 acres, near Dracut. Forest Lake with boat launch and park, forested area, recreational
buildings (beaded clapboards), gin mill, a Polish club, ski tow with a building which was
burned as practice of Fire Department, stone walls, remnant orchards, dirt road along east
side of Lake. At the northwest end of Hampshire Road.
Whirlaway Driving
Range Rt. 110
1930s, residential zoning on opposite side of street, interest in rezoning to multi-use
zoning. -->