Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Walden Pond is a historic pond in Concord, Massachusetts, in the United States. A good example of a kettle hole , it was formed by retreating glaciers 10,000–12,000 years ago. [ 4 ] The pond is protected as part of Walden Pond State Reservation , a 335-acre (136 ha) state park and recreation site managed by the Massachusetts Department of ...
Breed's Pond, at the southern end of the reservation, was dammed for industrial use in the 1840s, and Dungeon Rock became a tourist attraction in the 1850s. Demands for improved water supply (for both consumption and fire suppression) in the 1860s led to organized activities to conserve the woodlands surround Breed's and Walden Ponds.
A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.
The Walden Woods Project (WWP) is a nonprofit organization located in Lincoln, Massachusetts, devoted to the legacy of Henry David Thoreau and the preservation of Walden Woods, the forest around Walden Pond that spans Lincoln and Concord, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1990 by musician Don Henley to prevent two development projects in Walden ...
Route 126 south (Walden Street) to Route 117 – Walden Pond, Framingham, Waltham: At-grade intersection; northern terminus of Route 126: 82.2: 132.3: 50: 125: Route 2 east – Boston: Eastern end of Route 2 concurrency: Eastern end of limited-access section: Lexington: 85.3: 137.3: Marrett Road – Minuteman Park: 85.6: 137.8
Walden Township is a township in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 405 as of the 2000 census . [ 3 ] Walden Township was named after Walden Pond , in Massachusetts.
Walden Pond, discussed extensively in chapter The Ponds. The Ponds: In autumn, Thoreau discusses the countryside and writes down his observations about the geography of Walden Pond and its neighbors: Flint's Pond (or Sandy Pond), White Pond, and Goose Pond. Although Flint's Pond is the largest, Thoreau's favorites are Walden and White ponds ...
His earnings allowed him to expand his property, buying 11 acres (45,000 m 2) of land by Walden Pond and a few more acres in a neighboring pine grove. He wrote that he was "landlord and waterlord of 14 acres, more or less" in 1844. [17] A year later, he purchased another 40 acres at Walden stretching to an area that became known as Emerson's ...