Beals Preserve Upper Meadow

The view from the chronolog is to the north and takes in both the upper and lower meadows of Southborough Open Land Foundation's Beals Preserve, then the Wachusett Open Channel, which used to be an active conduit for Greater Boston’s public water supply, and then a meadow between the far bank of the channel and route 30.  The land on the north side of route 30 is owned and managed by the Trustees of Reservations as part of its Chestnut Hill Farm property.  The entirety of the Beals Preserve served as pasture for a herd of Ayrshire dairy cows for many decades until the early 1960s, when the farmers retired.  Now, periodic mowing keeps the meadows from being overrun with invasive woody species.

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