30 November 2020

Warner Hill (part two)

Back on the 9th of November, I wrote about our short hike up to Warner Hill in Western Mass.  the plan that day had been to explore the old farmstead found north of the summit that I had earlier detected using LiDAR.  Well that exploration didn't happen, but this past weekend we returned to the area and entered the site from an old wood road from the south.

So here are some shots.  this first one shows the bed of the old wood road north of Blotz Road.


The AT corridor Monument (number 8) is on the northern end of the settlement.


Multiple stone walls are found throughout the area.


And some evidence of the farm like a shovel blade stuck in a tree.


Up into the corridor, the mixed forest and stones are shown here.




More debris found at a site of a cellar hole.


Another shot of the old road (found on older USGS topomaps, but not the current ones.



These walls show up on the LiDAR, so I need to search old maps from Massachusetts Archive.


Here is monument 9, and unfortunately I didn't have the boundary map to find number 10, where a sharp turn toward the Northwest is found.  But I was following the road.