Coolidge Reservation

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

Hiking trail in the reserve

Coolidge Reservation (former Millet 's Neck ) is a 64 acres ( 25.9 ha) large nature reserve near the town of Manchester -by-the -Sea in the state of Massachusetts in the United States and is managed by the organization The Trustees of Reservations.

History

Originally known as Millet 's Neck area was renamed in 1871 after it was acquired by Thomas Jefferson Coolidge for U.S. $ 12,000 (today about $ 250,000 ). In 1873 he built the first cottage on the property, which he used as a summer residence.

1902 Charles McKim designed the second building in Georgian architecture, which was only completed in 1904. Although it consisted mainly of brick, it was known as " Marble Palace " because its foundation and its many ornaments were made of this material. Among the visitors of this house included, among others, the then President of the United States Woodrow Wilson ( 1918) and the Norwegian Crown Prince Olav V. (1938). Thomas Jefferson Coolidge III. had the building torn down in the 1950s and not replaced it with another new building, so that there is only one open area at this point today.

The first sections of today's Reserve gave the family the Trustees of Reservations Coolidge in 1990 and 1991, based apportion on the reserve in 1992. In the same year the Essex County Greenbelt Association donated the Bungalow Hill as a further component of the protected area. 1999 was followed by the date last section.

Sanctuary

The reserve is located on a known as Coolidge Point Peninsula and offers with rocky outcrops, wooded areas, wetlands, and a sandy beach in an area of ​​only 26 acres of diverse landscapes, which is home to a variety of animals and plants. The Bungalow Hill is the highest point of the protected area. In the forests dominate - like virtually anywhere in New England - oaks and pines, wildflowers and ferns and provide protection for different birds and fishermen martens, foxes and coyotes.

A footpath along the Clarke Pond. This former salt marsh was separated about one hundred years ago at high tide from the tide and today forms a water pond. At high tide and storms now and then reaches salt water in the pond and flushed in this course crabs and small fish from the sea. The water source is the habitat for ducks, geese, herons and a kind of Charadriiformes, which is known as shorebird in North America. Around the pond several acres are large wetlands in which to thrive, among other Cattail, Sedge plants and silt grasses and tooth lily, Arisaema and buttercups.

Total visitors 1 mi (1.6 km) are hiking trails available.