What do all those stone walls in the Middlesex Fells represent?  How did Stoneham become Stoneham?

How did colonial English colonists parcel out land once held in common by the Pawtucket along the shores of Spot Pond?  The answer lies in the stone walls and range lines of Charlestown End – what became Stoneham.

Join us as Alison Simcox and Doug Heath as they talk about the remnants of these range lines still existing and still marked by stone walls centuries later in the Middlesex Fells.

This is the annual joint meeting with the Stoneham Historical Commission for National Historic Preservation Month.  (Note this meeting is the 4th Thursday of the Month, not our typical Second Thursday).

Alison C. Simcox and Douglas L. Heath are environmental scientists with an interest in local history.  They are the authors of several books on local history, including the Middlesex Fells, Haywardville, Breakheart Reservation and Lake Quannapowitt.