PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
The Pingree Reservation was once part of the Pingree Estate, one of the several 'Great Estates' established in this area during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The former estate house is now a private, co-ed day school. Several trails traverse the property, leading visitors thorough a lovely forested upland of beech trees and pines. A red maple swamp boasts vibrantely colored leaves in the fall and serves to support the surrounding wetland and Black Brook.

Pingree Reservation hosts a remarkable series of eskers. These uncommon glacial formations may at first look like a strange arrangement of railroad embankments. Actually, they are ancient riverbeds, formed when the moutnains of ice melted, creating rivers along weak zones. Silt and rocks were laid down along the rivers' narrow paths, and eventually streambeds were built up above the level of ground on which the glaciers rested. After the retaining ice walls melted away, these streambeds were left behind, recognizable as the raised winding ridges we see today.