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The Walden Pond Reservation is located south of Massachusetts Route 2 and (mostly) west of Massachusetts Route 126 in Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts.The Fitchburg Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail passes west of the pond; however, the nearest station is in Concord center, 1.4 miles northwest of the reservation.
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.
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.
Walden Pond State Reservation: Middlesex: 335 acres 136 ha: 1922: Walden Pond: Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve: Barnstable: 110 acres 45 ha: 1987: Waquoit Bay; Quashnet River; Childs River; ponds: Ware River Watershed Area: Worcester: 23,000 acres 9,300 ha: Watson Pond State Park: Bristol: 163 acres 66 ha: Webb Memorial State ...
At Walden Pond, Thoreau completed a first draft of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an elegy to his brother John, describing their trip to the White Mountains in 1839. Thoreau did not find a publisher for the book and instead printed 1,000 copies at his own expense; fewer than 300 were sold.
Walden Pond, Walden Pond State Reservation; Danvers. Sandy Beach East; Sandy Beach West; Milton. Houghton's Pond, Blue Hills Reservation; Natick. Cochituate Lake Beach, Cochituate State Park; North Andover. Berry Pond Beach, Harold Parker State Forest; Frye Pond Beach, Harold Parker State Forest; Taunton. Middle Pond Beach, Massasoit State Park
Wachusett Mountain State Reservation; Wahconah Falls State Park; Walden Pond; Watson Pond State Park; Webb Memorial State Park; Wells State Park (Massachusetts) Western Gateway Heritage State Park; Weymouth Back River Reservation; Whitehall State Park; Willard Brook State Forest; Willowdale State Forest; Wilson Mountain Reservation; Wompatuck ...
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