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Maps

1. USGS. Click here or on image for a topo map (92 K). This shows the routes Thoreau would have taken when he walked from his villagehouse north to his Easterbrooks country. And the route the Carlisle minute men took on April 19th, 1775, along the old Estabrook road to Punkatasset Hill and then to the North Bridge. (Green vegetation information wasn't available for the northern part of the map.) Or click here to download a large (312K), full size, very clear USGS map. To download on a PC, right-click the mouse and select download target. On a Mac, click and hold mouse and select download link to disk.

2. The BioMap of Core Habitats necessary to preserve biodiversity, issued in October 2001 by Mass. Secretary of Environmental Affairs and state's Natural Heritage & Endangered Species agency. Click here or on image to view a portion of the state's BioMap. Estabrook Woods (including the Middlesex School development area) is there designated to be one of the state's Core Habitats, which should be preserved to save the state's biodiversity.

3. An orientation map -- This annotated map Protection of Estabrook Woods (80K) is useful: It clearly shows how the townspeople have been carefully protecting the Estabrook woods and how deeply the Middlesex project intrudes. The legend explains that dark green is permanently protected conservation land other than Harvard's land. And that light green is Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology's "Concord Field Station." Tan denotes land in some process of protection. (I do not show in any status of "protection" the proposed CR-2 land on the east shoreline of Bateman's Pond, for under the settlement agreement it would accompany harmful development deeper in the Woods.)

4. Herbert Gleason's 1906 annotated map of places Thoreau visited. This is the Estabrook portion of Gleason's memorable map with modern annotations and corrections. It is large GIF file (110K) but it is legible on-screen and suitable for printing.

5. Here is a handy "Walking Map" of Estabrook Woods.
 This was prepared for the 1999 Orion Conference on Forgotten Landscapes, held in Concord.[Click here for a GIF file, 68K]. It is a map having many sources (esp. Allie Bemis & Mary Fenn). [Or download a PDF file, 60K, to disk by click-hold (Mac) or right-click (PC).] Put this map and the Walking Notes together with a USGS map and you're all set.

5a. An excellent companion to the "Walking Map" map is a page of "Walking Notes" [click here].

6. People have asked for more general orientation maps about the Middlesex project, so here are such maps:

7. Here a clear map of the Middlesex project, just annotated. Click the thumbnail:
8. And here are a selection of other project maps: This is a thumbnail of a clear, 475 pixel USGS map (click it). It shows, on the left, the forty acres of land that Middlesex owns west of Lowell and Westford Road. In the middle are Bateman's Pond and the developed campus. Above and to the right of Bateman's Pond are the project area in Estabrook Woods.  In the lower right is Mink (or Stump) Pond; Estabrook road runs north from this pond over Curly Pate Hill. Click on it for a larger version. Click the thumbnail ->
9. This is a USGS map of the project area and the forty acres of land that Middlesex owns west of Lowell Road and Westford Road.

10. This is a diagram showing existing campus and the proposed development. (Printable at 150 ppi at 8x10.)

11. This is a newspaper-style orientation map.

12. This is a map showing protected land in the Sudbury and Concord River Valley. It is from my Biodiversity Bibliography of the valley. The area is a fine educational resource. This is an annotated cover showing the 70 fragments of conservation land in the valley from Wayland to Bedford, totally more than 12,000 acres. It is a triumph but lacks protected corridors and has few unfragmented blocks. Click right for 90K gerrymander map with Middlesex School annotation.

 

 

For more information on Middlesex School's development project, see Middlesex Project Start Page and the project maps included there.

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