Methuen Greenways

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Gill Avenue Playground.
 
Gill Avenue Playground.
  
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Greycourt State Park, driveway entrance next to Searles building on Pleasant Street; 26 landscaped acres on the former Tenney estate. <br>  
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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.]
 
Read about the [http://www.treasure-adventure.com/massachusetts.html Treasure of Tenney's Grey Court Castle.]
  
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Hillsie Pond, Milk Street; Searles Pond, Jackson Street.
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Hillsie Pond, Milk Street;  
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Searles Pond, Jackson Street.
  
 
Merrimack River Trail: To get there, park along Tobey Avenue and cross Merrimack Street (Route 110).
 
Merrimack River Trail: To get there, park along Tobey Avenue and cross Merrimack Street (Route 110).
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Veteran's Park off Milk Street.
 
Veteran's Park off Milk Street.
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<!--Searles Pond Dam, MA
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Searles Pond Dam is a Dam in Essex County, Massachusetts. It has an elevation of 38 meters, or 125 feet.
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Degrees Minutes Seconds:
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Latitude: 42-43'48'' N
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Longitude: 071-09'58'' W
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Decimal Degrees:
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Latitude: 42.7300906
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Longitude: -71.1661697
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Searles Pond, MA
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Searles Pond is a Lake in Essex County, Massachusetts. It has an elevation of 36 meters, or 118 feet.
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Degrees Minutes Seconds:
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Latitude: 42-43'54'' N
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Longitude: 071-09'57'' W
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Decimal Degrees:
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Latitude: 42.7317572
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Longitude: -71.165892
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Natural Features
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Brooks Bartlett, Griffin and Sawyer Brooks – flow to Merrimack in western section of Methuen
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Forest Lake
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Off Hampshire Rd.
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52 acres including City Beach and conservation area. Had ice houses. See Town Forest
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listing above.
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Harris Brook Site of former flax and saw mills.
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Hills Pond
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Pleasant Valley &
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Milk Sts.
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Located on Hills Farm.
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Merrimack River *
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Southern and eastern boundaries of Methuen. River banks are important including views
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across the river to other communities. Lack of public access to river, bottom land along the
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Merrimack River thought to be best agricultural land east of the Connecticut River Valley.
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Site of former Bea’s Sandwich Shop now town owned to be converted to boat launch just
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west of Rt. 93. There are a couple of islands in the river, the largest being Pine Island
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which is opposite the Armory.
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Mystic Pond
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Rt. 93 & Pelham
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St.
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Ice pond on which there was an ice house. Pond was relocated for the construction of Rt.
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93.
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Spicket River From Derry, NH to Lawrence in a north-south direction, three sections divided by two
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dams: Nevins Pond and Wildlife Area, Section between Lowell Street Dam and Music Hall
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Dam, and section between Music Hall/Organ Hall Dam and Lawrence. Spicket Falls Dam.
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Searles Pond
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Jackson St.
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8 acres. Former recreational pond.
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Open Space
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Hampstead Street Boulder, an original boundary marker for road from 1720s, glacial.
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Merrimack Park
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Rt. 110
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Late 19th c. trolley park, across from Armory. Along the Lowell-Lawrence-Haverhill
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Street Railway Company line. Park built by trolley line. Also could come by boat from
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Lawrence.
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Merrimack Valley
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Country Club
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210 Howe St.
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1902. Golf course designed by Donald Ross (designer of early courses in Pinehurst, NC
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and throughout country) in 1910. Ross designs were responsive to landscape, not
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contrived. Course in Chapter 61B.
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Pie Hill
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Rt. 213
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At confluence at Hawkes and Bare Meadow Brooks, near Rt. 495, impending 40B
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development with 280 units. One area has the largest concentration of spotted turtles in the
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area.
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Pine Island
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In Merrimack
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River
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Accessible only by boat.
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Spicket Falls
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Riverwalk Park
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48-50 Osgood St.
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1.5 acres. Below falls, Spicket River has an S-curve with a stone wall (mortar) on one side.
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Site of the former Merrimac (later Gaunt) mills. Established in 1996
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Tenney Estate &
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Park
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39 Pleasant St.
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Grey Court (1890-1893), Carrere & Hastings were architects for building, Ernest Bowditch
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designed grounds. House destroyed by fire in 1977. In 1951 Tenneys had given 26 acres
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to town for High School and sold the rest to the Basilian Salvatorian Order of Melkite Rite
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Seminary. Chapel built in 1960 and Tenney Stable remodeled in 1966. Stone wall
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enclosed gardens in which grow vegetables, fruit trees. Dairy barns remain.
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Town Forest
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Ridgewood Lane
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72 acres, near Dracut. Forest Lake with boat launch and park, forested area, recreational
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buildings (beaded clapboards), gin mill, a Polish club, ski tow with a building which was
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burned as practice of Fire Department, stone walls, remnant orchards, dirt road along east
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side of Lake. At the northwest end of Hampshire Road.
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Whirlaway Driving
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Range Rt. 110
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1930s, residential zoning on opposite side of street, interest in rezoning to multi-use
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zoning. -->

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