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Important News about this property!
The Hamden Land Conservation Trust in partnership with the Whitneyville Civic Association’s Gardening Club have recently received a $5,000 grant from Pratt & Whitney Green Power Grant Program to carry out improvement work on the HLCT property at the corners of Servoss and Mather Streets in Whitneyville. This property is also known in the neighborhood as the “Kettle Property”. Local Whitneyville resident and P&W employee, Alan Graham brought this grant to our attention and has been instrumental in the entire process. HLCT’s goal is to retain each of its properties in its natural state, providing a refuge for birds and animals, as well as plants. The land trust welcomes public use of its properties for bird watching and similar passive recreational activities that are consistent with this goal. There is a walking path accessible from both Servoss and Mather and neighbors are encouraged to walk through and enjoy the woods. Improvements funded by the grant will include: removing invasive plants around the edges of the property, installing a split-rail fence along Mather and Servoss Streets, planting a small native plant garden on the corner, and installing an interpretive sign about glacial kettles, all in an effort to make it clear that this property is something special for all to enjoy.
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165 Mather St.
Corner of Servoss and Mather Sts., bounded by Regional Water Authority property, consisting of 2.18 acres. This property is suited for very short and easy nature strolls and for bird watching. The Hamden Land Conservation Trust acquired this property from the town of Hamden in 1989.
The property was cleared in Spring, 2007, and HLCT has plans to plant native species here in the future. Planting will be limited to mountain laurel and a few white pines. Black birch seedlings will fill most of the vacant spots naturally. Smaller Norway maple (an invasive European exotic) may be reduced by pulling them up when soil is moist. Squirrels will plant oak acorns.
Our geology tour guide, Cope McClintock, has suggested that this might not be a dry glacial kettle, but rather a construction made by the Olin Corporation during World War II.
We are pleased to announce a partnership with the Whitneyville Gardening Club to protect and enhance this open space. For more information, please visit:
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