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Cuttings who held the property, and accumulated another 290 acres, until 1986 when Grace Cutting sold the property to conservation buyer, Jane Watson (Heyl) Stetson. She, with Maine Coast Heritage Trust, created an easement. With her husband Bill, she maintained the land and returned the area that makes up the Beech Hill Preserve to an organic blueberry operation. The Beech Hill Preserve, some 295 acres (119 ha), was then bargain sold, in 2003, to the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, which transferred the easement three years later to the Coastal Mountains Land Trust. A roughly 12-acre (4.9 ha) area of the preserve was listed on the National Register in 2003.
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