The Groton Open Spaces Association has, over the years, been responsible for preserving a vast amount of open space here in Groton. I am especially indebted to the Association, as I live a short walk away from Haley Farm State Park, which would have become a site for tract housing had it not been for the Association, which got its start preserving the Farm. Since that time it has bought, or caused to be purchased, additional open space that roughly forms a greenbelt through the center of Groton from the Sound to, until recently, land just south of the Ledyard line.
GOSA just announced that it has purchased the Avery Farm, a beautiful piece of land that straddles the Ledyard-Groton border. The last dirt road in either town (at least I beleive that to be the case, and I have bicycled a good deal in Groton ) runs through this land. The road is closed in the winter, but I have taken to driving through it in the summer as I make my way home from work in Norwich.
You can read a full description of the property here, including information on the various flora and fauna that can be found there. Here's a few pictures I took there recently; they really don't capture the place-I was mainly fooling around with an ultra wide angle lens.
Groton has truly been blessed to have this group of people in its midst. Without them, a lot of our open space would have been lost to developers. I should add that they have done what they've done with little to no cooperation from local politicians of either party. Most of our politicos seem to subscribe to the view that no land should go unraped in our ceaseless quest for “economic development”, which never seems to consist of attracting business to the unused physical plant that already exists. But that's a post for another day. I'm looking forward to walking this land, now that it belongs to the people.
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