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often hiked and recorded his experiences on the hill in his journal in the 1850s. In the 1940s, James DeNormandie acquired much of the land around Mount Misery to prevent it from being developed and for his own agriculture uses. He dammed the brook and excavated soil to form the lower pond, as well
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Terrapin Lake, a
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