History
Concerned that the growing population of Ashfield would spell an end to its wild places, Rev. Philip and Esther Steinmetz began to buy land in the early 1960s with the intention of preserving it forever. They gave this area to the public in 1968. Various other gifts of land by the Steinmertzes and others increased the size of the land, as did additional land purchased in 1997.
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