Thoreau Country: Location Note
Caption: Pine Hill (or Bare Hill) is in the town of Lincoln, just east of Walden Pond. State park bathhouse is at left center.
Caption: Walden Pond from the top of Pine Hill. Click for larger version. A viewing corridor has been cut through the trees and is visible in the previous picture. The photo was taken atop Pine Hill from the grassy top of the covered municipal drinking water reservoir, owned by Concord on land leased from Lincoln. Except for that, Pine Hill is owned by the Lincoln Conservation Commission, the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust, and the Walden Woods Project.
Caption: Church spire in Concord village from top of Pine Hill through another viewing slot. A New Hampshire mountain is beyond, on the horizon. Since Thoreau's time, Concord has lost its views: its hilltops have generally become inaccessible (in private ownership) or overgrown. The hill at Lincoln's Drumlin Farm (Mass. Audubon) gives the best approximation of Concord's hilltop vistas.
[Photos by S. Ells, 1999.
His Thoreau research page is at
<http://homepage.mac.com/sfe/henry/index.html>].
