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In 1871 Maynard became an independent town, and hosted a celebration where several citizens "raise a flag staff on
Pompsiticut hill." By at least 1891 the north and west sides of the hill contained "excellent orchard and plow-lands"and the south side contained "a fertile valley and many broad acres
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surveyed a woodlot near the hill for a sale to Sumner Blood," and in his treatise about wild blueberries
Thoreau wrote about how "Mr. Blood cut off his woodlot on Pomciticut Hill winter before last" which "deforms a hillside" but "all the villagers obtain compensation in the crop of berries that it
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In the early twentieth century, developers planned several subdivisions for the undeveloped land on Summer Hill, which never came to fruition, and in 1979 the
Conservation Commission purchased a large portion of the land on Summer Hill to preserve as open space. Summer Hill now has public hiking
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From 1683 to 1871 the hill was part of Stow before
Maynard was incorporated and "was the town's common land" and a pasture for many years. The Gibson family owned a large farm on the hill from the 1720s to 1823, and in 1826 the Maynards, distant cousins of
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with 24 acres of public hiking trails, and the summit of the hill also contains a radio tower and the town's steel and concrete water tanks. It is the highest point in
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