Walden to the Fourth Power: Understanding Walden from the Ground Up

Walden the Place

There is a crying need to bring together individuals from disparate disciplines, institutions, and sectors for the sharing of existing information on the Walden Ecosystem, for the integration of that information, and for the planning of future research. To those ends I propose a one- or (preferably) two-day interdisciplinary symposium for ecologists, geologists, soil scientists, biologists, hydrologists, limnologists, interested lay persons, and others, on the structure and functioning of the Walden Ecosystem (roughly, “Walden Woods”). Papers would be presented by specialists in the various fields who have a direct, working knowledge of Walden gained through original research on the Ecosystem; panelists in the various disciplines would discuss, interpret, and integrate the information presented; and, through infradisciplinary and cross-disciplinary “break-out sessions,” the same experts/specialists would develop a coherent, interdisciplinary description of the Ecosystem. They would also identify and recommend future research needs. The overall result would be a deeper understanding of the characteristics of the Ecosystem and how it functions (its “dynamics”).

The information presented and generated at such a symposium would increase our understanding of the Walden ecosystem amd would be of inestimable value to government agencies and private land-preservation organizations in devising a unified, coherent, and scientifically based management plan for the Ecosystem.

Thoreau's Natural History Essays and His 'Transcendental Ecology'

Thoreau’s “natural history” essays fit well within the context of the entire corpus of his writings, not in isolation from or as exceptions to the rest of it—and, above all because they reflect the general tenets of American Transcendentalism. Except for “The Succession of Forest Trees” and “The Dispersion of Seeds” (treating “Dispersion” as a long essay), the so-called natural history essays are unimpressive as science or even as natural history per se: they don’t “fit.” Again except for “Succession” and “Dispersion,” the natural history essays would have no legitimate place in a course on natural history, ecology, or any other science—nor in a course on the history of science, biology, or ecology. As works of literature, however, they are exemplary.

Thoreau insisted that he was “a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher.” We should take him at his word. James Russell Lowell asserts that Thoreau’s “whole life was a search for the doctor. The old mystics had a wiser sense [than he] of what the world was worth.” Lowell also claimed that Thoreau had “discovered nothing.” But Thoreau’s life—which is so vividly recorded and reflected in his writings—cannot be so cavalierly dismissed, and when Thoreau did assume a scientific stance (as in “Succession” and “Dispersion”) he actually did discover facts and did enunciate a scientific theory.

Rather than a failed “search for the doctor,” Thoreau’s life was a perennial quest for the sublime: “[T]o be always on the alert to find God in nature,” he says, “to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas, of nature.” Had Thoreau been an “orthodox” Christian and not an “infidel,” he might have said with the Psalmist, “As the hart [sic] panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.” The natural history essays should be read as records of a spiritual quest, as episodic religious pilgrimages, even “Succession” and “The Dispersion of Seeds.”

Thoreau did not describe himself as a social critic or political philosopher (though he was both), but he did say, “The ethical philosopher needs the discipline of the natural philosopher. He approaches the study of mankind with great advantages who is accustomed to the study of nature.”

At first glance the “political” essays do not seem to be part of any religious quest. They can be accommodated, however, if we realize that a quest has three components: the seeker, the sought, and the process of seeking (the search itself). In Thoreau’s case, as with most mystics, the quest is a one-on-one proposition; it is the individual soul that “panteth after [God];” thus, the individual is the inviolable foundation of Thoreau’s ethics. Each individual soul counts in the overall “scheme” of things, spiritual and mundane. An injustice against even one innocent individual is thus an assault on all morality. It is this realization that motivated Thoreau’s political pronouncements, from “Civil Disobedience” to “A Plea for Captain John Brown.”

Thoreau did not resort to chapels or churches, temples, mosques, or cathedrals, but “rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, . . . shrines [he] visited both summer and winter.” Thus, it was of paramount importance that there be pine groves in which to worship and encounter the Deity. It was his realization in 1856, which he eventually pursued with vigor in 1860, that forest succession—the natural rebuilding of the desecrated “temples” and “shrines” that he had visited for spiritual succor—would bring back into being groves and entire forests. It was this realization that drove his efforts to understand forest succession and that gave him hope. It was the solitude granted the individual spiritual seeker that commended wildness to Thoreau—groves and woods and pathless forests—in which to apprehend the Ancient One.

WALDEN ALIVE:

THE ECOLOGY OF WALDEN POND, WALDEN WOODS, AND THE BOOK WALDEN

Thoreau’s book Walden (1854), which has been called a founding document of the modern environmental movement, is a classic expression of American Transcendentalism, a social movement related to Romanticism, that was centered in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 1830s, ’40s, and ’50s, around the person of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Transcendentalism, among other things, placed especial emphasis upon “Nature,” striving to detect the divine (the sublime, the ideal or Real) in the mundane (the profane, the Actual, the phenomenal world).

Walden’s words have an intimate and profound connection to the characteristics of a particular landscape known as Walden Woods (with Walden Pond cradled in its midst)—i.e., to the Walden Ecosystem: some 2,680 acres of fire-prone disclimax “Northern Pine–Oak Forest” situated in Concord and Lincoln, Mass. In and through the literary symbol of Walden, and doing what any good Transcendentalist would have done, Thoreau (who was Emerson’s protégé and beneficiary) explored both the inner cosmology of his own being and cosmology as a whole, all the while scrupulously maintaining fidelity to the spatial and temporal particularities of Walden Woods.

While drawing upon many sources by way of quotation and allusion (Classical mythology, the Bible, Oriental scriptures, American and European history, English literature, etc.—all of which we will mention in this course), the book is nonetheless inextricably linked to the “humble” landscape for which it is names: features and phenomena of the terrain, of the pond, of the biota, of the weather, and of the ecological relationships of Northern Pine–Oak Forest, for example, had a controlling influence upon Thoreau’s prose.

There is in Walden—which is, after all, a literary work, not a work of science—an amazing degree of fidelity to the ecological realities of the Walden Woods landscape, but the high degree of fidelity has become apparent only recently, and it is obscured by the author’s supreme artistry. That is to say, everything appears in Walden in its proper ecological context. One should not be surprised to discover this, given the Transcendentalists’s yearning to detect the universal in the particular, but this is a fact that became discernible only a few decades ago.

What is surprising, perhaps, is the fact that Thoreau’s fidelity to particularities did not hamper his search for universals; on the contrary, it actually facilitated his quest, and that is the “magic” of Walden. But this raises the interesting question: If Walden Woods had not been there at all, or if it had been a different kind of woodland (or the pond a different kind of pond: mesotrophic or eutrophic instead of oligotrophic), or if the landscape itself had been radically different from what it is, would Thoreau have found other features and phenomena in some other kind of landscape to be as fruitful in terms of tropes and figures and symbols as he found Walden Woods to be? What would the book Walden look like if the area around Walden Pond resembled Yosemite Valley?

Recent developments in the earth and life sciences provide the ecological framework necessary to understand Walden in a way that was impossible two or three decades ago. We now can interpret and understand the literary text of Walden in the ecological context of the Walden Ecosystem. In short, the links between Walden and Walden are profound, multifarious, complex, and illuminating. As a literary artist, Thoreau was not compelled to conform to the characteristics of the Walden Ecosystem, but as a Transcendentalist he was bound to do so.

THOREAU COUNTRY, CONCORD AREA, AND WALDEN WOODS PLACE NAMES

Pierpont Morgan MA 1302:33, Gleason (1906), and EAS Lists

Combined and Alphabetized

Agricultural Fair Ground (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 1)

Alcott, A. Bronson (Gleason coordinates: F8)

Alder shore (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Alders, The (in Manatuket) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Almshouse (Gleason coordinates: G7; Site 2)

Ammania shore (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Andromeda Ponds (EAS; TCCA–WWP Coordinates D3; Site 1)

Andromeda Swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Andromeda, or Cassandra, Ponds (Gleason coordinates: J7)

Annursnack Hill (Gleason coordinates: D3)

Arethusa Meadow (Gleason coordinates: H6; Site 3)

Arrowheads Fields (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Assabet Bath (Gleason coordinates: E5; Site 4)

Assabet Bath (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Assabet River, or North Branch (Gleason coordinates: E5)

Assabet Spring (Gleason coordinates: E5; Site 5)

Assabet Spring (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Assabet Stone Bridge (Gleason) (See One-Arch Bridge) (Gleason)

Assabet) Swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Aster Wood (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Austin, L. H. (Gleason coordinates: K10)

Back Road (Gleason coordinates: G6)

Bacon’s Mill (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Baker Bridge (Gleason coordinates: J8)

Baker Bridge Road (EAS)

Baker Farm (Gleason coordinates: K7)

Baker, Jacob (Gleason coordinates: J8)

Baker, James (Gleason coordinates: J8)

Ball’s Hill (Gleason coordinates: D9)

Balls Hill (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Barberry field (?) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Barberry field, The (?) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bare Hill (Gleason) (See Pine Hill)

Barrett’s Bar (Gleason coordinates: D8; Site 7)

Barrett’s Bridge (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Barrett’s Pond (Gleason coordinates: D5)

Barrett’s Saw and Grist Mills (Gleason coordinates: E5; Site 8)

Barrett, G. M. (Gleason coordinates: E4)

Barrett, Nathan (Gleason coordinates: D7)

Barrett, Prescott (Gleason coordinates: E5)

Barrett, Sam (Gleason coordinates: E5; Site 6)

Bartlett, Dr. (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 9)

Bass swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bateman’s Pond (Gleason coordinates: C6)

Battle=Ground (Gleason) (See Old North Bridge)

Bayberry Pasture— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bear Garden Hill (Gleason coordinates: H6)

Bear Hill (Gleason coordinates: J9)

Beaver Pond (EAS)

Beaver Pond (Gleason coordinates: L11)

Beck Stow’s Swamp (Gleason coordinates: E9)

Bedford Levels (Gleason coordinates: F10)

Bedford Road (new) (Gleason coordinates: E8)

Bedford Road (old) (Gleason coordinates: E9)

Bedford swamp, the (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bedford swamp, the) [Wilbacornetts] swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bee tree wood (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Beech Hollow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Beeches, The (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bent oaks, The — (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

[Benzoin] Swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bidens Brook (Gleason) (See Pole Brook)

Bigelow, F. E. (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 10)

Bittern Cliff (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bittern, or Tupelo, Cliff (Gleason coordinates: J6)

Black ash swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Black Bird Bank (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Blood’s Pasture (Gleason coordinates: B8; Site 11)

Blood, Perez (Gleason coordinates: B8)

Boaz’s Meadow (Gleason coordinates: C6; Site 12)

Boiling Spring (Gleason coordinates: H6; Site 13)

Boston, or Lexington, Road (Gleason coordinates: F8)

Botrichium Swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Botrychium Swamp (Gleason) (See Yellow Birch Swamp)

Boulder Field (Gleason coordinates: C7)

Bound Rock (Gleason coordinates: L5)

Box turtle field (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Boze’s meadow {Boaz’s Meadow?} (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Breed, John (EAS)

Brick Kilns’ , The (beyond Monroes) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Brigham, J. G. (Gleason coordinates: K6)

Brister’s Hill (Gleason coordinates: G8)

Brister’s Spring (Gleason coordinates: G8; Site 14)

Britton’s Camp (Gleason coordinates: H9; Site 15)

Britton’s Camp— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Britton’s Hollow (Gleason coordinates: G9; Site 16)

Brooks, A. (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 17)

Brooks, Geo. (Gleason coordinates: D4)

Brown’s (J. P.) Cold Pool (Gleason coordinates: H4; Site 18)

Brown’s (J. P.) Pond=Hole, or Cold Pool (Gleason coordinates: H4; Site 18)

Brown, J. P. (Gleason coordinates: G5)

Brown, Simon (Gleason coordinates: E6)

Brown, Wm. (Gleason coordinates: B5)

Buckley’s Hill— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bufonio (Hubbard’s Corner) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bufonio (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bukeley & Willard {Hills?} (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bull, E. W. (Gleason coordinates: F8)

Bunsai Gakuen Institute (1991) (Modern) (EAS)

Burs Road, The —& Bursville (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bursville (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Bursville (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Button=bush Pond (Gleason) (See Clematis Pond)

Buttonwoods, The or Barberry field (?) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Buttrick’s Hill (Gleason coordinates: C8)

Buttrick’s Hill— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Buttrick, Abner (Gleason coordinates: D8)

Buttrick, Stedman (Gleason coordinates: D7)

Caddis worm [“worm” crossed out] brook (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Calla Swamp (Gleason coordinates: B6)

Calla Swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Callitriche Pool (Gleason coordinates: G8; Site 19)

Cambridge Turnpike (EAS)

Cambridge Turnpike (Gleason coordinates: G8)

Canoe Birch Road (Gleason coordinates: K3)

Cardinal Shore (Gleason coordinates: H6; Site 20)

Carlisle Bridge (Gleason coordinates: A9)

Carlisle Reach (Gleason coordinates: B9)

Carroll School (Modern) (EAS)

Casey’s Path— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Cassandra Ponds (Andromeda Ponds) (Gleason coordinates: J7)

Cassandra Ponds (Gleason coordinates: J7)

Cassandra Ponds (Gleason) (See Andromeda Ponds)

Cassandra Ponds (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Cedar Hill (Gleason coordinates: J10)

Cedar Swamp, White (Gleason coordinates: D4)

Celtis shore (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Celtis wall (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Channing, W. E. (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 21)

Cheny, J. M. (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 22)

Chestnut Oak Shore (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Choke=cherry fence (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Circudella bank (Potters) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Clamshell Bank or Hill (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 23)

Clamshell Hill or Bank (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 23)

Clamshell, or Sunset, Reach (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 24)

Clark, Brooks (Gleason coordinates: D6)

Clark, D. (Gleason coordinates: D6)

Clark, Joseph (Gleason coordinates: D6)

Clematis Brook (Gleason coordinates: D7)

Clematis, Button-bush, or Nightshade, Pond (Gleason coordinates: K7; Site 25)

Clethra shore (to Flint’s) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Cliffs (Gleason coordinates: J7; Site 26)

Clintonia Swamp (Gleason coordinates: G8; Site 27)

Codman Place (EAS)

Codman Road (EAS)

Colburn Hill (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Cold Brook (Gleason coordinates: L4)

Cold Brook (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

College meadow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

College Road (Gleason coordinates: D4)

College, The (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Colt path— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Columbine Cliff (Gleason coordinates: J6; Site 28)

Common (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 29)

Common’s, The (by Holder’s?) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Conant House, Old, Site of (Gleason coordinates: J6; Site 30)

Conant, E. (Gleason coordinates: J5)

Conantum (Gleason coordinates: J6)

Conantum Arboretum (Miles’) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Concord Commons Condominium Development (proposed 1987) (Modern) (EAS)

Concord High School (circa 1958) (Modern) (EAS)

Concord Landfill (circa 1958) (Modern) (EAS)

Coot=point— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Copan (Gleason coordinates: D9)

Cornel shore (to Great Meadows op Peters i?) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Corner Bridge (Gleason) (See Lee’s Bridge)

Corner Road (Gleason coordinates: H6)

Corner Spring (Gleason coordinates: H5; Site 31)

County House (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 32)

Court-House (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 33)

Creel Brook (Gleason) (See Pole Brook)

Crosby’s Pond (EAS)

Curly Pate (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Curly-Pate Hill (Gleason coordinates: B6)

Cyanean Meadow (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 34)

Cyanean Meadow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Dakin Lime Quarry (EAS)

Dakin’s Brook (Gleason) (See Dodge’s Brook)

Dakin, Dea. L. (Gleason coordinates: K3)

Dakin, E. (Gleason coordinates: E6)

Damon’s Mills (Gleason coordinates: G3)

Dangleberry Swamp (Hillards) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Davis’s Hill (Gleason coordinates: C9)

DeCordova Museum (Modern) (EAS)

Deep Cut (Gleason coordinates: C9)

Dennis’s Lupine Hill or Promontory (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 35)

Dennis’s Lupine Promontory or Hill (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 35)

Dennis, S. (Gleason coordinates: G5)

Derby’s Bridge (Gleason coordinates: F4)

Derby, J. (Gleason coordinates: F4)

Devil’s Stairway (EAS)

Devils=needle (coast) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Diving-Ash (Gleason coordinates: D8; Site 36)

Dodd, J. M. (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 37)

Dodge’s, or Dakin’s, Brook (Gleason coordinates: D6)

Dodges Brook (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Dome {Dove?} Rock (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Dove Rock (Gleason coordinates: E6; Site 38)

Dragon [“Dragon” crossed out] (coast) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Drift=Cut— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Dugan, Jenny (Gleason coordinates: H4)

Dunge Hole Brook (Gleason coordinates: K5)

Eagle-field (Conantum) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Easterbrook Country (Gleason coordinates: C6)

Easterbrook House, Site of (Gleason coordinates: C6; Site 40)

Easterbrook’s Quarry’s) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Ebby Hubbard’s Woods (EAS)

Echo Wood (Gleason) (See Holden Wood)

Eddy Bridge (Gleason) (See One-Arch Bridge)

Eddy-Bridge (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Edmond Hotham’s Hut (EAS)

Edmund Hosmer’s Farm (EAS)

Egg Rock (Gleason coordinates: E6; Site 41)

Eglantine wall (on Hill) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Elfin Burial-Ground (Gleason coordinates: G4; Site 42)

Emerson’s “Garden” (EAS)

Emerson’s Cliff (Gleason coordinates: H8)

Emerson’s Cliff (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Emerson’s Wood (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Emerson, R. W. (Gleason coordinates: F7)

Ephemeris Reach (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Epigaea Road (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Everett, Geo. (Gleason coordinates: G9; Site 43)

Fair Haven Bay or Pond (Gleason coordinates: J7)

Fair Haven Cliff (EAS)

Fair Haven Hill (Gleason coordinates: H7)

Fair Haven Pond Island (at high water) (Gleason coordinates: J7; Site 44)

Fair Haven Pond or Bay (Gleason coordinates: J7)

Fair Haven Road (EAS)

Fairyland (EAS)

Fairyland Pond (EAS)

Far away— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Farmer’s Cliff (Gleason coordinates: C6)

Farmer, J. B. (Gleason coordinates: D5)

Farrar Pond (EAS)

Farrar’s Blacksmith Shop (Gleason coordinates: G6; Site 45)

Farrar, Dea. James (Gleason coordinates: L7)

Field, John (EAS)

Fitchburg Railroad (1844) (EAS)

Fitchburg Railroad (Gleason coordinates: G7)

Flag staff Hill (behind C. Davis’) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Flicker orchard (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Flint’s or Sandy Pond (EAS)

Flint’s, or North, Bridge (Gleason coordinates: E7)

Flint’s, or Sandy, Pond (Gleason coordinates: J10)

Flint, J. (Gleason coordinates: E7)

Fort Pond Brook (Gleason coordinates: F2)

Fox Castle Swamp (Gleason) (See Owl-Nest Swamp)

Fox path through sedge Hollow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Freeman, Brister (EAS)

French’s Rock (Gleason coordinates: E7; Site 46)

Frost, B. (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 47)

Frosty Hollows (Richardson wood lot) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Garfield, B. (Gleason coordinates: F6)

Garrison, J. (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 48)

Gentian Lane (Gleason coordinates: E7; Site 49)

Gentian shore below Assabet Bath (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Glow-worm bank (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Goodwin Bay (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Goodwin, John (Gleason coordinates: G6; Site 50)

Goose Pond (Gleason coordinates: H8)

Goose Pond Path. (EAS)

Gourgas, F. R. (Gleason coordinates: 57; Site 51)

Gowing’s Swamp (Gleason coordinates: F9)

Gowing’s swamp) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Gowing, J. (Gleason coordinates: F9)

Gowings {Swamp} (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Grackle Swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Grape Cliff (op Bittern Cliff) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Great Bend— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Great Fields (Gleason coordinates: F8)

Great Meadows (Gleason coordinates: D8)

Great Meadows (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Grebe Bay— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Green Sea, The (Great Meadows) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Green, Isaiah (Gleason coordinates: A7)

Grindstone oak (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Gropius House (Modern) (EAS)

Groton Road (Gleason coordinates: E3)

Halcyon Bay—Walden (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hanted House, The (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hapgood, S. (Gleason coordinates: C3)

Hard Hack meadow—(by Stone bridge) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

hardhack Meadow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Harrington’s Spring (Gleason coordinates: G3; Site 52)

Harrington, J. (Gleason coordinates: G3)

Hawthorne, NAthaniel (Gleason coordinates: F8)

Hayden, E. G. (Gleason coordinates: G6)

Hayward’s Pond (Gleason coordinates: G2. Note: “Hayward” is spelled “Heywood” by Thoreau.)

Hayward, J. (Gleason coordinates: E4. Note: “Hayward” is spelled “Heywood” by Thoreau.)

Hayward, R. (Gleason coordinates: G2. Note: “Hayward” is spelled “Heywood” by Thoreau.)

Hemlock Brook (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Heron rock— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Heywood’s Brook (Gleason coordinates: J7; Site 55)

Heywood’s Meadow (Gleason coordinates: J7; Site 56)

Heywood’s Peak (Gleason coordinates: H8; SIte 57)

Heywood’s Wood-lot (Gleason coordinates: H8)

Heywood, A. B. (Gleason coordinates: E7; Site 53)

Heywood, Geo. (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 54)

Hibiscus meadow (Below Flint’s) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hildreth, G. W. (Gleason coordinates: D6)

Hill (Bury grnd) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hill (Gleason) (See Nawshawtuct)

Hoar, E. Rockwood (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 59)

Hoar, Samuel (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 60)

Hodgman, J. (Gleason coordinates: B8)

Hog=Pens, The (above eastabrooks) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hogepen=Walke” (Gleason coordinates: D4; Site 61)

Holbrook, J. (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 62)

Holden Spruce Swamp (Gleason) (See Kalmia glauca Swamp)

Holden, or Echo, Wood (Gleason coordinates: H6; Site 63)

Holden, T. (Gleason coordinates: J5)

Hollowell Bridge, The (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hollowell Place (Gleason coordinates: H5; Site 64)

Hollowell Rock (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Holt, the (Gleason coordinates: D8; Site 65)

Hornbeam Cape (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

[Horse] skul Meadow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hosmer Interval (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hosmer, Abel (Gleason coordinates: F4)

Hosmer, Edmund (after 1853) (Gleason coordinates: E6)

Hosmer, Edmund (before 1853) (Gleason coordinates: G9; Site 66)

Hosmer, Jesse (Gleason coordinates: G4)

Hosmer, John (Gleason coordinates: G5)

Hosmer, Joseph (Gleason coordinates: F4)

Howard’s Meadow (Gleason) (See Heywood’s Meadow)

Hub mead) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hub woods (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hubbard’s Bath (Gleason coordinates: G6; Site 68)

Hubbard’s Bridge (Gleason coordinates: H6)

Hubbard’s Brook (Gleason coordinates: G6)

Hubbard’s Close (Gleason coordinates: G8)

Hubbard’s Corner (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hubbard’s Grove (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 69)

Hubbard’s Hill (Gleason coordinates: C7)

Hubbard, C. (Gleason coordinates: G6)

Hubbard, Ebby (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 67)

Hubswood (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Hugh Whelan’s Cellar Hole (EAS)

Hunt House, Old, or Winthrop House (Gleason coordinates: E6)

Hunt’s Pasture (Gleason coordinates: C7; Site 70)

Hunt’s, or Red, Bridge (Gleason coordinates: E6)

Hunt, D. (Gleason coordinates: D7)

Hunt, Wm. (Gleason coordinates: D7)

Hutchinson, Peter (Gleason coordinates: E8)

Hyla pool (By Hardens) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Ice Fort Cove (EAS)

Ice Hummocks (Bedford) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Ind. Ditch Wood— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Indian Field (Gleason coordinates: E6; Site 71)

Indian Rock (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Ingraham, Cato (EAS)

Inn kept by Thoreau’s Aunts (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 72)

Inspiring Inspiration Road— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

intermittent spring (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Island, the (at high water) (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 73)

Islands, The (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Ivy Crossing (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Jacob’s path (where he was whipped) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Jail (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 74)

Jarvis, Francis (Gleason coordinates: E7)

Jenny’s Spring— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Jethro (where?) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Jethro (where?) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Jonathan Wheeler’s orchard (EAS)

Jones, Mrs. (Gleason coordinates: D7; Site 75)

Kalmia glauca, or Holden Spruce, Swamp (Gleason coordinates: H6)

Kettell Place (Gleason coordinates: E10)

Keyes, J. S. (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 76)

Kibbe Place (Gleason coordinates: B7)

Laurel Glen (Gleason coordinates: H7; Site 77)

Leaning Hemlocks (Gleason coordinates: E6)

Leaning Hemlocks, The— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Ledum Swamp (Gleason coordinates: H4; Site 78)

Lee Farm (Gleason coordinates: E5)

Lee fields (huckleberry pastures & {fields?}) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Lee’s Bridge (EAS)

Lee’s Cliff (Gleason coordinates: K6)

Lee’s Hill (Gleason) (See Nawshawtuct)

Lee’s, or Corner, Bridge (Gleason coordinates: K6)

Lee, I. S. (Gleason coordinates: K6)

Leek Knoll (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Lees {Cliff?} (for Tahattawan) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Legross, J. (Gleason coordinates: B4)

Lentago Wall (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Lexington Road (Gleason) (See Boston Road)

Lily Bay (Gleason) (See Willow Bay) (Note: This name was also given to a bay on the river in Sudbury.)

Lime Kiln, The— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Lime Quarry (Gleason coordinates: C6; Site 80)

Lime-kiln (Gleason coordinates: C6; Site 79)

Limestone Quarry (Lincoln) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Lincoln Bridge (EAS)

Lincoln Hill (Gleason coordinates: J10)

Linnæa Hills (Gleason coordinates: H4; Site 81)

Linnæa Woods (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Little Goose Pond, or Ripple Lake (Gleason coordinates: H9)

Little Truro (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 82)

little g. Pond (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Locust Burying Ground— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Lonely Graveyard (Gleason coordinates: G6; Site 83)

Loon Bay— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Loring’s Pond (Gleason coordinates: F3)

Lost Indian (Wood) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Lowell Road (Gleason coordinates: C5)

Macintosh, W. (Gleason coordinates: J9)

Manatuket (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Mantatuket Point or Rock (Gleason coordinates: E6; Site 84)

Mantatuket=Rock— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Mantatuket?} meadow &c— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Marlborough Road, Old (Gleason coordinates: H3)

Marten spring—(by Farmers (or intermittent spring) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Mason, J. (Gleason coordinates: B8)

Maynard’s Place (Gleason coordinates: J2)

meander, The—(above wren Hill) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Melvin Preserve (Gleason) (See Easterbrook Country)

Melvin, Geo. (Gleason coordinates: D6)

Melvin, J. (Gleason coordinates: B5)

Melvins shore (Assabet—below Dodges Brook) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Merriam, D. (Gleason coordinates: E5)

Merriam, J. (Gleason coordinates: E10)

Merriam, R. (Gleason coordinates: F9)

Merrick’s Pasture (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 85)

Miles Swamp (Gleason coordinates: H4)

Miles’s Mill, Warren (Gleason coordinates: H4; Site 86)

Miles’s Run, Charles (Gleason coordinates: H5)

Miles, Charles (Gleason coordinates: H5)

Miles, Martial and Warren (Gleason coordinates: H4)

Mill Brook (EAS)

Mill Brook (Gleason coordinates: F9)

Mill Road (Gleason coordinates: J4)

Mill-dam (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 87)

Ministerial Lot (EAS)

Ministerial Swamp (Gleason coordinates: H3)

Minn’s Place (Gleason coordinates: K8)

Minott, Abel (Gleason coordinates: K7; Site 88)

Minott, Geo. (Gleason coordinates: F7)

Money digger’s Hill (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Money-Diggers’ Shore (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 89)

Monroe, Francis (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 90)

Monroe, Wm. (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 91)

Moonlight Glade (by Pear tree) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Moore’s Swamp (Gleason coordinates: E8)

Moore, J. B. (Gleason coordinates: F8)

Mount Misery (Gleason coordinates: K7)

Mount Tabor (Gleason coordinates: K10)

Mud turtle meadow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Mulberry path (Old Sudbury road) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Murmuring Brook (Dakins’) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Musquash=town (shore of Hub mead) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Muster Field, The (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Myosotis Brook (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

myrtle bird shore (down river) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Nashoba Brook (Gleason coordinates: E2)

Nawshawtuct, or Lee’s, Hill (Gleason coordinates: F6)

New Bury grnd (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Nightshade Pond (Gleason) (See Clematis Pond)

Nolan’s Seat (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

North Branch (Gleason coordinates: E5)

North Branch (Gleason) (See Assabet River)

North Branch {of the Concord River} (Gleason coordinates: E5)

North Bridge, Present (Gleason) (See Flint’s Bridge)

North Bridge, Site of Old (Battle-Ground) (Gleason coordinates: E7; Site 92)

Nut Meadow Brook (Gleason coordinates: H4)

Nut Meadow— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Nutting & LeGrosse (Modern?) (EAS)

Oak=pasture (or [Whitethroat] pasture) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Office Park (proposed 1989) (Modern) (EAS)

Old North Bridge (EAS)

Old=Bridge Meadow (or hardhack Meadow) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

One-Arch, Eddy, or Assabet Stone, Bridge (Gleason coordinates: E4)

Orchis Swamp (Gleason coordinates: J7; Site 93)

Orthodox Church (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 94)

Otter Bank ([ ] turtle bank) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Otter bay (behind Dea Farrars) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Owl-Nest, or Fox Castle, Swamp (Gleason coordinates: C6)

Paint-turtle meadow (toward Balls Hill) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Painted-Cup Meadow (Gleason coordinates: E4; Site 95)

Paul Adam’s (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pe=Pe Swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pear tree (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pear tree meadow (near Bedford Road) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Peet weet shore (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Peetweet rock (at the Poke Logan) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pestle spring (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Peter’s Path (Gleason coordinates: E8)

Piet’s Corner— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pilgrim burrows [“burrows” crossed out] or hill (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pilgrim Hill (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pine Hill (Concord) (Gleason coordinates: E10

Pine Hill, or Bare Hill (Lincoln) (Gleason coordinates: J9)

Pine sap path (in Hub woods) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pinxter Swamp (Assabet) [“Willow Swamp” crossed out] (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pinxter Swamp (Gleason coordinates: E6; Site 96)

Pinxter Swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pleasant Meadow (Gleason coordinates: J7)

Plum wall (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Poke Logan, the (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pole Br— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pole, Creel, or Bidens, Brook (Gleason coordinates: K6)

Ponkawtasset Hill (Gleason coordinates: D7)

Poplar Hill (Gleason coordinates: E7)

Poplar path toward 2d Division (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Potamogeton [“Potamogeton” crossed out] Weedy Pond (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Potter’s Field (Gleason coordinates: H6; Site 97)

Potter’s Swamp Meadow (Gleason coordinates: H6; Site 98)

Potter, Jonas (Gleason coordinates: G6)

Pout’s Nest (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Pout’s Nest, or Wyman Meadow (Gleason coordinates: H8; Site 99)

Powder-Mills (Gleason coordinates: H1)

Pratt, Minot (Gleason coordinates: D7

Prescott, G. L. (Gleason coordinates: E7; Site 100)

Prichard, M. (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 101)

Puffer, B. (Gleason coordinates: H5)

Purple Utricularia Bay (Gleason coordinates: K7; Site 102)

Quaking Swamp (Gowings) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Railroad Depot (Concord) (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 103)

Railroad Depot (Lincoln) (Gleason coordinates: F9)

Railroad Picnic Grounds (EAS)

Railroad Shanties (EAS)

Red Bridge (Gleason) (See Hunt’s Bridge)

Red Chokeberry Lane [E]. Near Goose Pond [= Goose Pond Path?]. E J (Boston: 1910),IX (May 2, 1857): 91–92. Cf. TJ IX (1 May 57): 350. (EAS)

Red Chokeberry swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Red Huckle berry pasture (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Red Pine Hill (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Redstart Wood— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Rhodora Swamp (Tarbell’s) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Rice’s swimming place (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Rice, Israel (Gleason coordinates: L5)

Rice, Reuben (Gleason coordinates: E7; Site 104)

Ripley Hill (Gleason) (See Poplar Hill)

Ripley, Mrs. (“Old Manse”) (Gleason coordinates: E7; Site 105)

Ripple Lake (Gleason) (See Little Goose Pond)

Ripple Lake (little g. Pond) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Rock maple wood— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Route 2 (1935) (Modern) (EAS)

Route 117 (Modern) (EAS)

Route 126 (Modern) (EAS)

Russell Farm, The (Lincoln) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Sand bank (Potters) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Sandy Pond (Gleason) (See Flint’s Pond)

Sassafrass Orchard (on Hill) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Saw Mill Brook (N. E.) (Gleason coordinates: C7)

Saw Mill Brook (S. E.) (Gleason coordinates: G9) (Note: This is the “Saw Mill Brook” most frequently mentioned by Thoreau.)

School where Thoreau taught (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 106)

Scouring rush Bank— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Second Division Brook (Gleason coordinates: J2)

Second Division Spring (Gleason coordinates: H2; Site 107)

sedge Hollow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Seine=Place, The (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Seringo field (by Gowing’s swamp) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Seven=Star Lane (Gleason coordinates: J5; Site 108)

Shadbush meadow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Shanties, The (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Shattuck, D. (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 109)

Shattuck, H. L. (Gleason coordinates: D7)

Shawsheen) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Sheldrake Bay—(F. H. P.) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Shrub Oak Plain (Gleason coordinates: J7; SIte 110)

Skating Meadow (Below Reynold’s) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Sleepy Hollow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Gleason coordinates: F7)

Smith’s Hill (Gleason coordinates: G10)

Smith, C. (Gleason coordinates: H10)

Smith, J. A. (Gleason coordinates: D4)

Smith, J. M. (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 111)

South Bridge (Gleason) (See Wood’s Bridge)

Spanish Brook (Gleason) See Well Meadow Brook)

Spanish Brook (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Sparkling reach (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Spencer Brook (Gleason coordinates: C5)

Squam Harbor (Gleason coordinates: D9; Site 112)

Staples, Sam (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 113)

State Reservation Headquarters (Modern) (EAS)

Stone Bridge (Gleason coordinates: F6)

Stone bridge (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Stone heap pond) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Stow, Cyrus (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 114)

Stratton Cellar Hole (EAS)

Strawberry Hill (Gleason coordinates: B3)

Stump fence field—(pasture) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Sudbury Meadows (Gleason coordinates: L5)

Sudbury River (EAS)

Sudbury Road (Gleason coordinates: H5)

Sunny Bank” (Johnson) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Sunset Interval (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Sunset Reach (Gleason) (See Clamshell Reach)

Sunset reach (Behind Dodds) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Swallow reach—(or The Islands)—(or swift Reach) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Swamp Bridge Brook (Gleason coordinates: G6; Site 115)

Sweetgale meadow—(?) [where] (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Swift Reach (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Swimming Beach (EAS)

Swimming=ford (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Tahattawan (for Lees) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Tanageria (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Tarbell’s Spring (Gleason coordinates; Site 116)

Tarbell, D. (Gleason coordinates: G4)

Tarbell, W. (Gleason coordinates: C9)

Teal Rocks (up assabet) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Temple’s Place (Gleason coordinates: D4)

Therien’s path— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Thimbleberry wall (Hubbard’s) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Thoreau Street (1872) (EAS)

Thoreau’s “Texas” House (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 120)

Thoreau’s Beanfield (EAS)

Thoreau’s Birthplace (Gleason coordinates: E10)

Thoreau’s Boat-Landing (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 117)

Thoreau’s Cairn (EAS)

Thoreau’s Cove (EAS)

Thoreau’s Grave (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 118)

Thoreau’s Home in the Village (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 119)

Thoreau’s House (EAS)

Thoreau’s Hut, Site of (Gleason coordinates: H7)

Thoreau’s Path to Walden (EAS)

Three Friends’ Hill (EAS)

Three Friends’, or Lincoln, Hill (Gleason coordinates: J10)

Thrush Alley (EAS)

Toad Pool—or Bufonio (Hubbard’s Corner) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Town Hall (Concord) (Gleason coordinates: F7; Site 121)

Trillium Woods (Gleason coordinates: H7; Site 122)

Trillium Woods (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Tupelo Cliff (Gleason) (See Bittern Cliff)

Tupelo Corner (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Turtle Hollow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Tuttle’s Lane (EAS)

Tuttle, Aug. (Gleason coordinates: G8)

Union Turnpike (Gleason coordinates: F5)

Unitarian (First) Church (Gleason coordinates: F7)

Vanessa Ledge— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Veery path (by Flints) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Virginia Road (Gleason coordinates: E9)

Waban Cliff (Lees) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Waban [“Waban” crossed out] & Jethro (where?) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Walden Pond (Gleason coordinates: H8)

Walden Road (Gleason coordinates: G7)

Walden road (EAS)

Walden Street (EAS)

Walden Woods (Gleason coordinates: H7; Site 124)

Warner Pail Factory (Gleason coordinates: F3; Site 125)

Wax work swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Weedy Pond [“Potamogeton” crossed out](Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Weird Dell (Ch) my Well=meadow field (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Weirs (where?), The (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Well Meadow (Gleason coordinates: J7)

Well Meadow, or Spanish, Brook (Gleason coordinates: J7; Site 126)

Well=meadow field (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Weston, Daniel (Gleason coordinates: J10)

Wetherbee, L. (Gleason coordinates: B4)

Wharf Rock (Gleason coordinates: H10)

Wheeler’s Swamp (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 127)

Wheeler, Cyrus (Gleason coordinates: K5)

Wheeler, F. A. (Gleason coordinates: J5)

Wheeler, Samuel G. (Gleason coordinates: F5)

Wheeler, T. (Gleason coordinates: G4)

White bobolink crossing (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

White Cedar Swamp (Gleason coordinates: D4)

White Pond (Gleason coordinates: J4)

White, Zilpha (EAS)

Whitethroat] pasture (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Wilbacornetts] swamp (the Bedford swamp) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Willis, J. (Gleason coordinates: G2)

Willow Bay (below Dome {Dove?} Rock) (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Willow Bay [“Bay” crossed out] or Island (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Willow Bay, or Lily Bay (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 128)

Willow Island (Gleason coordinates: E6; Site 129)

Willow Island [“Bay” crossed out] (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Willow island (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Willow Swamp [“Willow Swamp” crossed out] (Assabet) Pinxter Swamp (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Winn, P. (Gleason coordinates: E6)

Winthrop House (Gleason) (See Old Hunt House)

Witherell sea Bay— (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Witherell Vale or Glade (Gleason coordinates: G5; Site 130)

Witherell vale N W of Puffer’s (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Wood Thrush Path (Gleason coordinates: H10; Site 132)

Wood’s Bridge (EAS)

Wood’s, or South, Bridge (Gleason coordinates: F6; Site 131)

Wood, Elijah (Gleason coordinates: F5)

Wood, Jas. (Gleason coordinates: C5)

Woodis Park (Gleason coordinates: E5)

Woodis Park (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Wren meadow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

wren Hill (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Wright, J. (Gleason coordinates: G9)

Wyman Meadow (Gleason) (See Pout’s Nest)

Wyman, Tommy, and Hugh Quoil (EAS)

Yellow Birch Swamp (Gleason coordinates: B7)

Yellow Thistle meadow (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

Zizania Shore (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)

[ ] turtle bank (Pierpont Morgan MA 1302: 33)