• Bush Hill Preserve
Story Trail at Bush Hill farm -- card with information about the story trail. We celebrated the grand opening May 1, 2021 and added more kiosks for pages in 2023.
Bush Hill farm map showing trails and landmarks on the 177.5-acre Bush Hill property, by Justin Pedneault and the Bush Hill farm committee.
Barn Roof fixed, flyer
describing the roof replacement on the cider barn at the Bush Hill farm; report created in 2017 for SBM
Charitable Foundation, which donated money for this project.
Bush Hill farm: proposed housing subdivision
-- now open space, could have been a housing development!
Bush Hill farm: Steve Botti article
and photo of cider-making, circa 1980.
Aerial view of Bush Hill farm area
showing the farmland in relation to nearby open space lands. Two-page flyer created for our farm fundraising campaign.
Bush Hill 1980s-era farm news clippings
with newspaper ads and illustrated stories about the Botti Farm, from local newspapers.
Bush Hill: Botti farm photos from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s; thanks to Gerry Botti for lending the photos.
• Case Mountain
• Cheney Railroad
• Griswold Park on Hills Street, Manchester
Griswold Park Hills Street trail map
with information on connection to Buckland Pond trail via Barnwood Road. Trail created December 2020. Map by Trust director Justin Pedneault.
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• Mary Jane Williams Park Trail
• Marsh Pond Trail Map
• Path to Wellness Map -- Hospital donation
• Pavan Nature Trail
• Purdy Nature Trail
• Risley Park
Risley Park map
showing the Risley Park hiking trail, including elevations and location of the parking area.
• Salter's Pond
• Stickney Hill
Stickney Hill and the Rockville water system
-- by historian Jon Roe, from his Tankerhoosen website.
Stickney family info
-- excerpts from the memoir of Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey, 1843-1920, who grew up in the area. She wrote
several popular books on botany, as well as "A Daughter of the Puritans," her autobiography. Google books has the whole autobiography
Stickney Hill hiking trail map
-- self-guiding trail map of
the Trust's property in Rockville, CT.
Stickney Hill walk poster
-- a poster publicizing hikes that the Land Trust leads occasionally at Stickney Hill.
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