- City:
- Wrentham, MA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Paths and Trails
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1934
Description
The Massachusetts Department of Forestry acquired “one thousand acres of land in Wrentham and Plainville” in 1934. CCC labor was utilized to “clean up the underbrush, make the woodroads into real roads, rebuild old dams which have been down for many years, stock the ponds with fish, and set out young pine trees.”
Source notes
"Add To State Forest"; The Foxboro Reporter, Aug. 4, 1934 (page 1, column 3).Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 4, 2014.
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