Fresh Pond walk

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Carlos Zarco

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Distance: 2.15 mi
Elevation gain: 0 ft
Technical difficulty: Easy
Elevation loss: 23 ft
Max elevation: 0 ft
TrailRank: 23
Min elevation: -25 ft
Trail type: One Way

Moving time: 40 minutes
Time: 43 minutes
Coordinates: 601
Uploaded: June 16, 2018
Recorded: June 2018

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near Huron Village, Massachusetts (United States)

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The Native Americans used the pond to fish and drink thousands of years. Settlers used the fields around Fresh Pond to grow hay, and hunted ducks in the pond. In the eighteenth century, settlers began to build farms south, west and north of the lagoon. In 1796 Jacob Wyeth built the Fresh Pond Hotel east of the pond on land that is now part of Kingsley Park. In 1798, a wealthy resident built a country estate north of the pond in Black's Nook. At the beginning of the 19th century, clay was removed from the marshes surrounding Fresh Pond for use in the brick making industry. Beginning in the 1820s, entrepreneurs started cutting ice in Fresh Pond.