Upton Heritage Park - Upton MA
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N 42° 10.517 W 071° 35.829
19T E 285494 N 4672503
The park is developed for nature walking, just a quiet place to enjoy nature. The park contains a 300 year old cave of unknown origins.
Waymark Code: WM1434M
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 04/05/2021
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The Upton Historical Commission is leading the community effort to repair the cave and develop the park as a resource for Upton citizens of all ages, where they can hike, enjoy nature and see one of the town's most fascinating and mysterious historic sites.
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The Upton Cave has been described as one of the largest and most perfectly built of more than 300 stone chambers found throughout the Northeast. A six-foot-high, fourteen-foot-long tunnel leads into a hillside, to a beehive-shaped domed chamber of quarried stone measuring about twelve feet across and eleven feet high. The cave is topped with several large oval stones believed to weigh several tons each.
As the exploration of its past continues, the future preservation of the cave seems assured. Upton residents voted to preserve the historic stone structure and its setting by acquiring the seven acre property on Elm Street for a community park using Community Preservation Act funds.
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