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 Open SpacesNorwood, massachusetts
Featuring Open Space and Conservation Lands
in the Town of Norwood

Written by Patricia Fanning

Photography and Design by Bruce Jones

Bade Canoe Launch

Ellis Pond
Endean Conservation Land
Hawes Brook & Pool
Hennessey Field
Father McAleer Playground
Shattuck Park
William Pezwick Park
(Traphole Brook Conservation Land)

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

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 Ellis Pond
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Location: Off Route 1A - Walpole
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n 1832, Isaac Ellis and Joseph Shortly after ownership of the en-
Day founded a wrapping-paper terprise was transferred from Ellis to
mill on Hawes Brook at the dam Winslow Brothers & Smith Company
on the east end of Ellis Pond, located in 1909, the operation consisted of
off today’s Walpole Street; the pond five mammoth ice houses.
may actually have been created to Cutting and storing the ice was
provide power for the mill’s opera- such a fascinating process that the
tion. Within two years, Day left the harvesting of the ice crop became
partnership but the enterprise contin- family entertainment and people
ued in the Ellis family. lined the shores of the pond to watch Paddle boat on Ellis Pond
By the mid-19th century, the the men work. With the advent of
family began to harvest ice from Ellis manufactured ice, the company at
Pond thereby creating the Norwood first maintained a separate storage
Ice Company. At the outset the ice facility to house manufactured prod-
was not marketed widely but, under uct in addition to the pond ice. Once
the direction of Isaac Ellis, the busi- refrigeration systems were perfected,
ness evolved into a major industry. 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- Martin B. Curran Dam, dedicated 1999.
ment of Natural Resources and the
Self Help Program. Since that time, cluding clearing brush, constructing
improvements have been made in- walking paths and adding signage.

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Activities • Fishing • Walking • Picnic •
Paddle Boating

Ellis Pond

The walking path on the North side of

Ellis Pond

Ellis Pond - Ellis Paper Mill and Ice House, 1880

Street name entrance to the walking

path near the Cleveland School.

Article on the Ellis Ice Company, The Messenger, June 10, 1932
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 Hawes Brook & Pool
Hawes Brook
Ownership: Town
Management: Conservation
Committee
Acres: 4.78
Property was donated to the town.
Number 2 in Survey of most favorite
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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.

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Activities • Fishing • Walking • Picnic • Swimming
Hawes Pool
Ownership: Town
Management: Parks & Recreation
Acres: 7.10
Spray Park, Trail developed along
Hawes Brook.

Hawes Pool Park

Hawes Playground today Norwood/Canton Race, July 15, 1965

(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.

Fun at Hawes Pool, July 13, 1950 Hawes Pool, July, 1962

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 Hennessey Field
Ownership: Town
Management: Selectmen
Acres: 7.55
New walking trail has been installed,
Abuts school land on Lenox Ave.
Monroe St.

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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 Indian Pipe
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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Activities • Walking • Picnic • Nature Watching
Active Community
Involvement in 2009
Keeps Hennessey
Up-to-Date

Walking trails in Hennessey Field

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Shattuck Park
Ownership: Town
Management: Parks & Recreation
Acres: 7.53
Use restricted by deed; stonedust walk-
ing trail cuts through parcel
Number 3 in Survey of most favorite
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n 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 “wild land” on the outskirts of town
Town.” to housing developments, a park-
Shattuck Memorial Park was to way consisting of small parks and
be part of a string of parks, parkways, playgrounds connecting two large
and playgrounds proposed in the park areas—one east of the cemetery
1923 report of Arthur A. Shurtleff, toward the Westwood border and
Town Planner. Understanding that a second on the margins of Willett the existing community is constantly
the residents of Norwood would Pond—was recommended to ensure exerting every endeavor to add to
likely soon lose the considerable open and recreative space. the beauty of its surroundings?” she
Three years later, in 1928, Emma asked. She predicted that unless the
Shattuck wrote to the Selectmen, town acquired property quickly for
who had voted against a proposed this purpose, property prices would
parkway from Walpole to Nichols become prohibitive and the system
Streets, expressing her dismay. She would be unattainable.
reminded the board that her gift had The Shattuck Memorial Park re-
been part of a proposed Park System mains an undeveloped oasis of wood
which had yet to be established. “Can and shade situated between Winter
Norwood attract new citizens unless and Nichols Street.

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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.

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Endean Conservation Land
Ownership: Town
Management: Conservation
Committee
Acres: 37.23
Abuts Jr. High South, hiking & nature
trails, Views of the Blue Hills
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T
he 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 wood residents to use it for recreation
donated more land for Endean Play- and camping. Today the site includes
ground and for a park at Washington the Philip O. Coakley Middle School,
and Mylod Streets. Even while Bird Endean Playground, and Hawes Pool.
owned the property, he allowed Nor- One of only three persons ever named
Honorary Citizens of Norwood, Bird
died in 1980 at the age of 95.

Endean entrance on Mylod Street

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Activities • Walking Trails • Nature Watching

Endean entrance behind Coakley

Middle School, plenty of parking.

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William Pezwick Park
Ownership: Town
Management: Selectmen
Acres: 2.3
Landlocked parcel; located at
convergence of Traphole Brook and
Neponset River
T
he 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.
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Traphole Brook Conservation Land
Activities
Nature Watching
Fishing • Walking

Playing hockey on Mill pond, Traphole Brook.

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Bade Canoe Launch
Ownership: Town
Management: Conservation
Commission
Acres: 0.14
Canoe launch and trail area, Staging area
for river races and clean-up efforts.

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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

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.

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 Father McAleer Playground
Ownership: Town
Management: Parks & Recreation
Acres: 47.27
Swimming pool, Soccer fields, contains
many play areas.

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rior to its settlement, the area previously known as White Mike’s editors noted, “Recognized as an ex-
now known as Norwood was Field, ‘The Father McAleer Play- ceptional leader of youth, Fr. McAleer
a slightly wooded wilder- ground.’” had endeared himself to both old and
ness. Much of this wooded expanse Rev. Robert E. McAleer was a young alike and his passing is a severe
remained undeveloped even into the curate at St. Catherine’s for thirteen blow to the town.” In respect to his
twentieth century. The area which ex- years, arriving in Norwood fresh from memory, stores along Washington
tended from the top of Vernon Street Boston College and St. John’s semi- Street were closed during Rev. McA-
toward Westwood was one such area. nary in Brighton. McAleer organized leer’s funeral which was attended by
A playground property emerged on St. Catherine’s junior baseball team a crowd which overflowed onto the
land owned at least in part by a man and directed the annual church carni- steps of the church.
named Mike Curran. Commonly val. In 1936 he formed St. Catherine’s In 1959, a swimming pool was
referred to as “White Mike’s,” due to Fife and Drum Corps and had the opened at Father McAleer’s play-
Curran’s patch of white hair, it was pleasure of marching with two prize- ground and in 1965 eight acres in the
a popular recreation spot. In March, winning units before his untimely vicinity of Father’s Mac’s was acquired
1941 Town Meeting confirmed the death following an operation in by the Norwood Conservation Com-
action of the Board of Selectmen to October of 1940 at the age of 37. At mittee with the assistance of the State
rename “the playground properties the time of his death, the Messenger’s Department of Natural Resources.

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Activities • Swimming • Sports Fields • Play Ground

Bath and guard house at Father Macs

Soccer fields and

playground

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Name Management Acres Description

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.

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Name Management Acres Description

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

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Name Management Acres Description

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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Project Location: G:\projects09\Norwood_OS_Plan\Map9_LandsofConservationandRecreationalInterest.mxd

Date of Map: November 5, 2009

The information depicted on this map is for planning purposes only.

It is not adequate for legal boundary definition, regulatory
interpretation, or parcel-level analysis.

980 490 0 980 1,960 Feet Produced by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Data Services Department.
60 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111 (617) 451-2770
500 250 0 500 1,000 Meters
Source: Massachusetts Geographic System (MassGIS)
Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)
Massachusetts Department of Transportation (DOT)

Coordinate Reference System: Massachusetts State Plane Feet (NAD83)

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Bruce Jones Design Inc.
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Norwood, MA 02062
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