Open Spaces, Conservation and Recreation Lands in Norwood, MA

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Open Spaces is the companion book to the NPA TV show “Open Spaces • Norwood”. This book and television show were made possible with the generous help of Norwood Public Access TV,

Norwood Historical Society, the Town of Norwood. Special thanks to: Al Goetz, Matthew Costa, Steve Costello, James F. Gormley, Joseph and Theresa, Patrick Laverty, Linda Rau, Heather Cole,

Project Historian - Patricia J. Fanning; Norwood Recreation Department - Jerry Miller; Louise Miller and for NPA TV Jack Tolman.

© Copyright J. Bruce Jones 2009

Featuring Open Space and Conservation Lands in the Town of Norwood

Written by Patricia Fanning Photography and Design by Bruce Jones

Bade Canoe LaunchEllis Pond

Endean Conservation LandHawes Brook & Pool

Hennessey FieldFather McAleer Playground

Shattuck ParkWilliam Pezwick Park

(Traphole Brook Conservation Land)


In 1832, Isaac Ellis and Joseph Day founded a wrapping-paper mill on Hawes Brook at the dam

on the east end of Ellis Pond, located off today’s Walpole Street; the pond may actually have been created to provide power for the mill’s opera-tion. Within two years, Day left the partnership but the enterprise contin-ued in the Ellis family.

By the mid-19th century, the family began to harvest ice from Ellis Pond thereby creating the Norwood Ice Company. At the outset the ice was not marketed widely but, under the direction of Isaac Ellis, the busi-ness evolved into a major industry.

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Ellis Pond

Shortly after ownership of the en-terprise was transferred from Ellis to Winslow Brothers & Smith Company in 1909, the operation consisted of five mammoth ice houses.

Cutting and storing the ice was such a fascinating process that the harvesting of the ice crop became family entertainment and people lined the shores of the pond to watch the men work. With the advent of manufactured ice, the company at first maintained a separate storage facility to house manufactured prod-uct in addition to the pond ice. Once refrigeration systems were perfected, however, the iceman’s age ended and the Norwood Ice Company passed into memory.

In February of 1972 the Town of Norwood, through its Conservation Commission, purchased Ellis Pond with assistance from the Depart-ment of Natural Resources and the Self Help Program. Since that time, improvements have been made in-

cluding clearing brush, constructing walking paths and adding signage.

Paddle boat on ellis Pond

martin B. curran dam, dedicated 1999.

Ownership: town

Management: conservation committee

Acres: 37.50

Includes ellis and Guild Ponds. Norwood sportsmen club located Guild Pond

Location: off route 1a - walpole street, across from hannifords market

Number 1 in Survey of Most Favorite Areas


ellis Pond

ellis Pond - ellis Paper mill and Ice house, 1880

the walking path on the North side of ellis Pond

street name entrance to the walking path near the cleveland school.

article on the ellis Ice company, the messenger, June 10, 1932

Activities • Fishing • Walking • Picnic • Paddle Boating


Hawes Brook

Ownership: town


Acres: 4.78

Property was donated to the town.

Number 2 in survey of most favorite areas

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Hawes Brook Walkway Con-servation Area is located off of Washington Street

in South Norwood along the Hawes Brook. Totalling about 5 acres from Washington Street to the railroad bridge, it includes two former swim-ming holes (a men’s and a women’s), and a walking trail. Today, a well marked path can be followed through the woods along the brook, return-ing along the access road next to the Coakley Middle School.

The Hawes Brook Swimming Pool opened in June 1949. Built at a cost of $20,000 and holding 200,000 gallons of water, the pool originally

had no modern filtering system, so it had to be closed, drained, cleaned, and refilled weekly. The pool became so popular that when a drought hit in August, it was deemed exempt from a townwide water ban. By the 1970s, more than 500 Norwood children were taking swimming lessons each summer at the pool.

(right) railroad bridge at the end of the walking path, (Far right) walking path with marked trail.


Hawes Pool

Ownership: town

Management: Parks & recreation

Acres: 7.10

spray Park, trail developed along hawes Brook.

(Top) Hawes Pool in the 1970s. (Above) Helen Wraga (left) and Vera Zabrowski are seated on the wall surrounding the Fish Pond in 1941. Located behind today’s Hawes Pool, the pond area also had a bathhouse and plenty of room for picnics.

Activities • Fishing • Walking • Picnic • Swimming

Fun at hawes Pool, July 13, 1950

hawes Pool Park

hawes Playground today

hawes Pool, July, 1962

Norwood/canton race, July 15, 1965


Ownership: town

Management: selectmen

Acres: 7.55

New walking trail has been installed, abuts school land on Lenox ave.

Hennessey Field

In the mid-twentieth century the Town of Norwood acquired various tracts of land on Pleasant

Street, much of it known locally as Hennessey Field, for use as a play-ground, park and possible future school site. In 1972, it was examined along with Endean as a possible loca-tion for the new Junior High South (now Coakley Middle School) and in the 1990s it came under consid-eration as a possible site for a new Department of Public Works facility. To date, the area remains open space with well maintained walking trails.

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Active Community Involvement in 2009

Keeps Hennessey Up-to-Date

Activities • Walking • Picnic • Nature Watching

walking trails in hennessey Field


Shattuck Park

Shattuck Park

Nichols St.

Rosemary St.

Winter St.

Bond St.

Shattuck Park Rd.

Belmont St.

Ownership: town


Acres: 7.53

use restricted by deed; stonedust walk-ing trail cuts through parcel

Number 3 in survey of most favorite areas

In December of 1924, Mrs. Emma L. Morrill Shattuck offered 9 ½ acres of undeveloped wooded

land to the Town of Norwood. Located on Winter Street, the lot was to be designated a public park named Shattuck Memorial Park. The Town Meeting accepted the generous offer and authorized the Selectmen to “formally express the thanks of the Town.”

Shattuck Memorial Park was to be part of a string of parks, parkways, and playgrounds proposed in the 1923 report of Arthur A. Shurtleff, Town Planner. Understanding that the residents of Norwood would likely soon lose the considerable

“wild land” on the outskirts of town to housing developments, a park-way consisting of small parks and playgrounds connecting two large park areas—one east of the cemetery toward the Westwood border and a second on the margins of Willett Pond—was recommended to ensure open and recreative space.

Three years later, in 1928, Emma Shattuck wrote to the Selectmen, who had voted against a proposed parkway from Walpole to Nichols Streets, expressing her dismay. She reminded the board that her gift had been part of a proposed Park System which had yet to be established. “Can Norwood attract new citizens unless

the existing community is constantly exerting every endeavor to add to the beauty of its surroundings?” she asked. She predicted that unless the town acquired property quickly for this purpose, property prices would become prohibitive and the system would be unattainable.

The Shattuck Memorial Park re-mains an undeveloped oasis of wood and shade situated between Winter and Nichols Street.


Activities • Walking Trails • Nature Watching

(upper Left), Peter Pan rock, (opposite Page) shattuck home on the corner of walpole and winter streets, till 1962, (above), woods in fall, rocks, trees, and pathways.


Endean Conservation LandOwnership: town


Acres: 37.23

abuts Jr. high south, hiking & nature trails, Views of the Blue hills

The Town of Norwood owes much to local industrialist and philanthropist Charles S.

Bird, Jr. of Walpole. The last family member to lead the building products company, Bird & Son, which was founded in Walpole in 1795, Bird donated to Norwood the land known as Eliot Park (off Washington Street). He later sold the town 38 acres and the building today known as the George H. Morse House for half its assessed valuation and later still donated more land for Endean Play-ground and for a park at Washington and Mylod Streets. Even while Bird owned the property, he allowed Nor-

wood residents to use it for recreation and camping. Today the site includes the Philip O. Coakley Middle School, Endean Playground, and Hawes Pool. One of only three persons ever named Honorary Citizens of Norwood, Bird died in 1980 at the age of 95.

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Activities • Walking Trails • Nature Watching

endean entrance behind coakley middle school, plenty of parking.


William Pezwick ParkOwnership: town

Management: selectmen

Acres: 2.3

Landlocked parcel; located at convergence of traphole Brook and Neponset river

The fertile land along the Trap-hole and Hawes Brooks, near the East Walpole-Norwood

town line, was one of the first settled areas in Norwood. There a hardy population of adventurers gradually transformed the wilderness into the small, self-contained South Dedham village. Because of this history, the area has significant meaning to the town.

The Norwood Conservation Commission, formed in 1962, rapidly recognized that potential conserva-tion land was scarce and expressed a

desire to acquire as many open spaces as possible for use by present and future residents of Norwood. To that end, due to the work of the Commis-sion, the town acquired some three and one-half acres of land off Sumner Street including Mill Pond along Traphole Brook in 1966. The state’s Department of Natural Resources Self-Help Program assisted in the pur-chase of this parcel by contributing 50% of the acquisition cost. The area was intended to have multi-purpose usage, including nature walks, fishing, and ice skating at Mill pond.

In 1974, Traphole Brook Res-ervation was officially surveyed and markers were placed and a few years later, a small triangular lot beside the brook was acquired. In 1977, the conservation property in the area of Traphole Brook was designated William Pezwick Park, in memory of a neighborhood boy who was killed tragically the previous year.


Traphole Brook Conservation LandActivities Nature watchingFishing • Walking

Playing hockey on mill pond, traphole Brook.


Ownership: town

Management: conservation commission

Acres: 0.14

canoe launch and trail area, staging area for river races and clean-up efforts.

Known as the Bade Canoe Launch, the spot behind the River Ridge Office Park on

Rte 1 was acquired from a local real estate developer in the late twentieth century. Officials from the Neponset River Watershed Association indi-cated that this would be a welcome option for people seeking to launch their canoes in Norwood. Prior to this acquisition, the nearest public launches were in Canton where the sites are steep and parking is limited. The Neponset River, which runs

Bade Canoe Launch

from Foxboro and empties into the Boston Harbor, offers nature-lovers scenic views of lovely marshes and vegetation and fishing for bass, trout, pickerel, and carp. The canoe launch can also be used as a staging area for river races in addition to continued clean-up and maintenance efforts.

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Activities • Boat Launch • Canoeing • Nature Watching • Walking

(top) Bade canoe Launch along the Neponset river, (above) View of parking lot and Launch entrance behind River Ridge Office Park on Route 1.


Father McAleer Playground

prior to its settlement, the area now known as Norwood was a slightly wooded wilder-

ness. Much of this wooded expanse remained undeveloped even into the twentieth century. The area which ex-tended from the top of Vernon Street toward Westwood was one such area. A playground property emerged on land owned at least in part by a man named Mike Curran. Commonly referred to as “White Mike’s,” due to Curran’s patch of white hair, it was a popular recreation spot. In March, 1941 Town Meeting confirmed the action of the Board of Selectmen to rename “the playground properties

previously known as White Mike’s Field, ‘The Father McAleer Play-ground.’”

Rev. Robert E. McAleer was a curate at St. Catherine’s for thirteen years, arriving in Norwood fresh from Boston College and St. John’s semi-nary in Brighton. McAleer organized St. Catherine’s junior baseball team and directed the annual church carni-val. In 1936 he formed St. Catherine’s Fife and Drum Corps and had the pleasure of marching with two prize-winning units before his untimely death following an operation in October of 1940 at the age of 37. At the time of his death, the Messenger’s

editors noted, “Recognized as an ex-ceptional leader of youth, Fr. McAleer had endeared himself to both old and young alike and his passing is a severe blow to the town.” In respect to his memory, stores along Washington Street were closed during Rev. McA-leer’s funeral which was attended by a crowd which overflowed onto the steps of the church.

In 1959, a swimming pool was opened at Father McAleer’s play-ground and in 1965 eight acres in the vicinity of Father’s Mac’s was acquired by the Norwood Conservation Com-mittee with the assistance of the State Department of Natural Resources.

Ownership: town


Acres: 47.27

Swimming pool, Soccer fields, contains many play areas.

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Bath and guard house at Father macs

Activities • Swimming • Sports Fields • Play Ground

Soccer fields and playground


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town of Norwood Conservation Lands

endean conservation Land con comm 37.23 abuts coakley middle school. hiking & nature trails. Views of the Blue hills

ellis Pond con comm 37.50 Includes ellis and Guild Ponds. Norwood sportsmen club located on Guild Pond

Lasalle conservation Land con comm 7.10 abuts Fr. mcaleer’s Playground. enter from winter street near westwood town line

Peswick Park conservation Land con comm 3.13 enter from sumner st. traphole Brook runs through property.

university ave. conservation Land con comm 19.01 Good for hiking, wet in places, located in acec and rare wetland wildlife habitat

Purgatory Brook Conservation Land Con Comm 4.10 Landlocked, abuts Town’s Ellis Wellfield, Located in acec behind Lost Brook country club

traphole Brook conservation Land con comm 2.30 Landlocked parcel, located at convergence of traphole Brook and Neponset river

everett street conservation Land con comm 3.63 Located behind everett st. senior housing

Bade canoe Launch con comm .0.14 canoe launch and trail area. staging area for river races and clean-up efforts.

Fortune drive Lot con comm 3.96 abuts Norwood airport. Possible trail and nature walk.

short street Parcel con comm 0.33 Landlocked, abuts Neponset river

hawes Brook con comm 4.78 Property was donated to the town. development potential was restricted due to the rivers Protection act.

everett Family Land con comm 13.32 abuts Neponset river, good trail potential.



town of Norwood Parks and recreation Lands

civic center Parks & rec. 1.00 town recreational head quarters

hawes Pool Parks & rec. 7.10 Pool, spray park, trail developed along hawes Brook

Fr. McAleer Parks & Rec. 47.27 Swimming pool. Soccer fields, contains many play areas.

shattuck Park Parks & rec. 7.53 use restricted by deed, stonedust walking trails cuts through parcel.

Bond st. Playground Parks & rec. 1.41 tot lot area. recently refurbished and expanded

hartshorns swale Parks & rec. 1.90 used as an outdoor skating area

allen road Land Parks & rec. 0.50 abuts Pleasant st. Park, greenspace

Pleasant st. Park Parks & rec. 3.17 aka murphy memorial Park. Little League baseball and basketball courts and playground equipment

town common Parks & rec 1.10 aka memorial Park. New gazebo used for music and civic events

Guild Square Park Parks & Rec. 0.70 Vest pocket park next to Post Office.

d.a.V. Park Parks & rec 4.49 on walpole and chapel sts. Groomed park used for sunning, picnics, etc

clark street Land Parks & rec. 2.00 Low, wet area; part of old dunn’s Playground behind police station

mylod st. Park Parks & rec. 0.90 small park at intersection of washington st. and mylod street

wilson st. Playground Parks & rec. 11.11 Babe ruth Baseball, swing sets

Fortune drive rec. Lot Parks & rec. 0.29 conveyed with deed restriction. Potential tot lot of basketball court.

Charles Eliot Park Parks & Rec. 7.28 Baseball and softball fields; seen as core recreational facility site

Willett Parkland Parks & Rec. 13.75 Connects Willett School to landfill. Great potential for greenbelt to Fr. mac’s

Doherty Field Parks & Rec. 7.70 Little League field recently build. Swing set and children’s play area.

Ivatts tennis courts Parks & rec. 0.70 refurbished tennis courts


town of Norwood Selectmen Lands

Sanitary Landfill Selectmen 30.00 Capped landfill. May take 75-100 years for land to fully settle. Land slopes down steeply. Potential for passive recreation such as birding, sky gazing, part of greenway

Neponset Valley Land selectmen 89.92 conveyed with deed restriction. Located off Vanderbilt ave. abuts Neponset river

westover Parkway selectmen 29.46 Part of the westover development, provides a green buffer along willett Parkway

hennessey Field selectmen 7.55 New walking trail has been installed. abuts school land on Lenox ave.

allendale Property selectmen 8.27 Part of allendale development, abuts hawes Brook

winslow ave. Lot selectmen 2.63 once part of the winslow school, now a children’s play area

stort street parcel selectmen 0.33 Landlocked parcel with severe slopes, abuts Neponset river near Bird Inc.

town of Norwood School Lands

Oldham School School Committee 15.56 New baseball and softball fields, new rectangular all-purpose field

Callahan School School Committee 10.83 Baseball and softball field, open play areas

willet school school committee 22.89 softball and tennis

senior high school school committee 22.54 Football, baseball and tennis courts

Cleveland School School Committee 18.42 Baseball and softball field, open space area

Prescott school school committee 10.13 Baseball and softball, basketball court

Coakley Middle School School Committee 38.20 Softball, soccer/football fields, tennis courts

Junior high North school committee 17.26 Potential for core outdoor basketball facility

Balch school school committee 3.27 children’s school yard, abuts elliot Park

Lenox ave school Property school committee 5.94 Part of hennessey Field



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The information depicted on this map is for planning purposes only.It is not adequate for legal boundary definition, regulatoryinterpretation, or parcel-level analysis.

Produced by the Metropolitan Area Planning CouncilData Services Department.

60 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111 (617) 451-2770

Source: Massachusetts Geographic System (MassGIS)Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)Massachusetts Department of Transportation (DOT)

Town of NorwoodOpen Space and Recreation Plan

Figure 9Lands of Conservation and Recreational Interest

Coordinate Reference System: Massachusetts State Plane Feet (NAD83)

980 0 980 1,960490 Feet

500 0 500 1,000250 Meters

Project Location: G:\projects09\Norwood_OS_Plan\Map9_LandsofConservationandRecreationalInterest.mxdDate of Map: November 5, 2009

Tax Title

Water BodiesStreamsIntermittent Streams

Public Open SpaceConservation and Parkland(Permanently Protected)Schools (Moderately Protected)

Hydro

Lands of Conservation &Recreation Interest

Area of CriticalEnvironmental Concern

Other Municipally Owned Land

Municipally Owned Open Space

Private Lands (Unprotected)Private Open Space & Recreation

Commuter Rail -Franklin Branch

Commuter Rail Stops

Town Parcels

Roads

norwood conservation and recreational Land


Project produced, photographed and designed byBruce Jones

Bruce Jones Design Inc.661 Washington StreetNorwood, MA 02062

781-255-7171 • [email protected]

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Open Spaces, Conservation and Recreation Lands in Norwood, MA