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Pequossette Park (near Arsenal)
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- Prehistoric Site (Nonantum Road)
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- Birds that have been seen in the Perkins Pond area 1978 Revision All Year Residents
- Migratory
- Animals, Reptiles etc that have been seen in the pond area.
- Also found are numerous insects including
- Shrubs
- Dr. Allen and the Trees of Perkins
Pequossette Park (near Arsenal) Pequossette is the Indian word for "The place where the water widens". About the year 2000 B.C. the sea Level had risen so that the tides met the fresh water at this point. To the East, nearby, Swain's Brook flowed into the Charles River; as a result this place was heavily inhabited. Pequossette Park (near Arsenal) The greatest ranges of prehistoric objects, on this region, have been discovered near this site. Discoveries include a stone tool of the Early Archaic period (about 7000 B.C.). Many archaic implements (about 4000 B.C.) and several Squibnocket tools (about 2500 B.C.) most of the objects date from what is now called the Watertown period (160-1400 B.C.). Prehistoric Site (Nonantum Road) In prehistoric times Lemon Brook flowed into the Charles River at the foot of Nonantum Hill. Gravel excavations in the 19th century revealed extensive prehistoric remains, including stone implements dating from 4000 B.C. down to recent times. Found were cutting tools, axes, pestles, and hammer stones. Many of these objects are at the Jackson Homestead in Newton, MA. Near this site in 1857 an archaeologist, Jessie Fewkes, discovered the burial site of an aged Indian woman. She was facing east, downstream, and was adorned with turtle shells, a totem of stone and arrowheads, and some metal beads and buttons, possibly of European origin. The last recorded Indian settlement in this area in t626, was a group of "Praying Indians" moved here after being held at Deer Island during the King Philip War.
About 1500 B.C. the ocean level had risen so that the tides met the fresh water at this point. Construction work, nearby, revealed an extensive collection of stone cutting tools, which are now at the Peabody museum, Harvard University. Some date from 1600 B.C. but the greatest majority area of the Orient Period (1100-600 B.C.) and a few of more recent origin. Birds that have been seen in the Perkins Pond area 1978 Revision All Year Residents American Blue jay Starling Common Grackle English sparrow White-throated Sparrow Black-capped Chickadee American Goldfinch Rock Dove Slate Colored Junco Common Crow Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Chinese Ring-necked Pheasant White-breasted Nuthatch Herring Gull Cardinal Kestrel Mockingbird American Robin
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Brown and White Creeper Red-winged Blackbird North American Oriole Song Sparrow Rose-breasted Crosebeak Yellow Warbler Maryland yellowthroat Gray Catbird House Wren Belted kingfisher Eastern Phoebe
Rufous-sided Towhee American Woodcock Brown-headed Cowbird Mourning Dove Yellow-shafted Flicker Eastern Meadowlark Great BIue Heron Bob-o-link
Cedar Waxwing Chewink Olive-sided Flycatcher American Kingbird Lapland Longspur Common Redpoll Red-eyed Vireo Brown Thrasher Mallard Duck Black-crowned Night Heron Barred Owl Fox Sparrow Sharp-tailed Sparrow Shrike
American Redstart Ruby-crowned kinglet Brown Creeper Wood Thrush Oven Bird Myrtle Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Wilson Warbler Canadian Warbler Parula Warbler Black and White Warbler Cape May Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Connecticut Warbler Blackpoll Winter Residents Tree Sparrow Snow Bunting Pine Siskin Tufted Titmouse Evening Grosebeak Sawhet Owl Sparrow Hawk (Kestrel) Ovenbird White-crowned Sparrow Scarlet Tanager Bob-white Red-breasted Nuthatch Animals, Reptiles etc that have been seen in the pond area. Skunk
Opossum Fox, Red Raccoon Grass Snake Garter Snake Bat, Brown Gray Squirrel Muskrat Water Rat Frog, Bull Toad
Turtles, Painted and Snapping, Box Mice Dog
Cat Also found are numerous insects including: Mosquito Dragonfly Bees Hornets Wasps Crickets Grasshopper Ants May FIy
Moth Butterfly Praying Mantis Water Beetle Water Plants Water Lilies Pickerel Weed Arrowhead FIag Mallow
Algae, (Various species) Trees Red Maple Tulip Poplar Swamp White Oak Black Birch Black Walnut Butternut Wild Black Cherry Sugar Maple Weeping Willow American elm Shrubs Elderberry Button Bush Arrow-wood Blueberries Pussy willow Viburnum
Pokeberry Cinquefoil Blue Violets White Violets Ground mint Asters, New England Buttercup Mustard
Poison Ivy Meadow Sweet Dandelion Dock Ceiadine Jewel Weed Fern and Grasses Royal Fern Lady Fern Sensitive Fern Grasses numerous varieties
Dr. Allen and the Trees of Perkins When Dr. Allen first visited the site of the present Perkins Campus, he was deeply impressed with the number and the beauty of the trees he saw there. Being something of an arbor culturist, as well as educator, Dr. Allen not only preserved the campus trees but added many new ones. Persons attending Perkins during his administration have recalled seeing the director on numerous occasions busily engaged in making grafts on the different trees. Today more than 45 different species of trees are found on campus. Included among them are maples, oaks, walnuts, ashes, and a few venerable elms that have managed to survive the Dutch elm disease epidemic. Two yellowwood trees on campus have attracted worldwide attention, being the only known specimens to bear pink blossoms. Tree identification signs, in both Braille and print, which have been placed on many of the trees, have proved useful for classes in science and nature study and by the scouting program. A manual, "Trees of the Perkins Campus", describes the different kinds of trees and their locations. Our trees, like our campus, represent a valuable educational and aesthetic resource. Directory: uploads uploads -> 587 Return function, r i(X) r i(0) r i(1) r i(2) r i(3) 1 0 2 4 6 Thermal Station, I 2 0 1 5 6 3 0 3 5 6 10 uploads -> Department of science and humanities department of mathematics part-a questions and answers uploads -> The Case Against the nypd’s Quota-Driven ‘Broken Windows’ Policing What Is It? uploads -> For want of a nail uploads -> Ownership Models There are two different types of ownership models uploads -> Police Militarization uploads -> City of rising star regular meting thursday, july 14, 2016 uploads -> Township of winfield uploads -> Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act of 2014 uploads -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program What We Want Now! Download 173.36 Kb. Share with your friends:
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