National Trust for Historic Preservation and Preservation Massachusetts

      The amount of historical research uncovered for this site has been impressing to historians, and before one could visit the site,  I hoped the site was even more impressing.  A 'Circuit Rider' from the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) and Preservation Massachusetts could not be more impressed when they visited the site last week :)

     The outlook of others strengthens belief that "This Place (does) Matter".   These wild and dramatic natural landscapes of heritage are windows to the past, reminiscent with throbbing memory.. of history persistent throughout the centuries... shared between 3 townships... fighting a common cause on both sides of the track... between those many who find it momentous and those few who do not care, thereby creating a perfect formula to nominate this site to be enlisted as a Mass Endangered Historic site.


     The research of Spring Pond leads to find that the history here relates to the history of the National Trust for Historic Preservation!!!   Louise E. du Pont Crowninshield, wife of Francis Boardman Crowninshield, is known as one of America's first major historical preservationists and was a founding member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  Crowninshield's ancestor is Dr. John Casper Richter Von Crowninshield (Johannes Kaspar Richter Von Kronenscheldt, as first spelled),  who was one of the first families to settle in this country and the first in the country to descend the respectable (Boston Brahmin) Crowninshield Family of Boston... who began his family from a little cottage, settled by Spring Pond c1700.