History
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History of Cottage Farm and Hall’s Pond” by Ferris Hall
Slides presented at Friends of Hall’s Pond Annual Meeting, June 2019
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A Brief Historical Overview
At the time of European settlement, much of the area that is now North Brookline was wetland. Amory Park and Hall’s Pond were part of a particular kind of wetland—an Atlantic White Cedar swamp—that extended to the Charles River. The high level of acidity and the low level of oxygen in such a swamp greatly slow down decay, building up peat.
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“A Plan for Hall’s Pond Sanctuary” (PDF)
Prepared for Brookline Conservation Commission Town of Brookline, Massachusetts
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Friends of Hall’s Pond
October 1996 -
“She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!” Illustrated Book (PDF)
Minna Hall and Harriet Hemenway, two very well bred Boston ladies, decide that something must be done. Fashionable ladies are parading around town with dead birds on their hats! So Minna and Harriet gather together the most prominent women and men in town and form a club to protect the birds. Thus is born the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
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