Lincoln Woods Reservation - Lincoln RI - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

State 146 passes at 12.4 m. the State Police Barracks behind which is Olney Pond, a part of the Lincoln Woods Reservation (see Tour 4A). (pg381)

Right on Quinsnicket Rd. through Lincoln Woods Reservation, a unit in the State park system offering extensive recreational facilities. The park surrounds Olney Pond, no acres in extent, and includes over 600 acres of rock-strewn wooded hills through which wind over 10 miles of improved road and 10 miles of bridle paths. The reservation was officially named on Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1909. It has more than 50 fireplaces for the use of picnic parties, several camp sites on the east side of Olney Pond, and a large recreation field. (p382)

p.381-382 Rhode Island - A Guide to the Smallest State, 1937







Right on Quinsnicket Rd. through Lincoln Woods Reservation, a unit in the State park system offering extensive recreational facilities. The park surrounds Olney Pond, no acres in extent, and includes over 600 acres of rock-strewn wooded hills through which wind over 10 miles of improved road and 10 miles of bridle paths. The reservation was officially named on Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1909. It has more than 50 fireplaces for the use of picnic parties, several camp sites on the east side of Olney Pond, and a large recreation field.

p.382 Rhode Island - A Guide to the Smallest State, 1937



Seventy-one acres was purchased in the fall of 1908 for $3,000 from the Stephen H. Smith family of Franklin, Massachusetts, Lincoln Woods State Reservation started officially on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, 1909. Between 1908 and 1910, 457.41 acres were purchased to make up the woods and little ponds of Lincoln Woods. Over the years since, Lincoln Woods has grown to 627 acres, which now rim the pond and include playing fields to the south. The facilities have grown and improved to include changing rooms for the swimmers, a snack bar, nature barn, and park administrative and maintenance facilities. With bridal and hiking trails throughout, the basic feature besides Olney Pond which also caters to fishing and boating including swimming, is a circumferential road favored by walkers and bicycle riders.

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Book: Rhode Island Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 382 Year Originally Published: 1937

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