Historic Structures Report: Duck Pond, Part I, Adams National Historic Site
Harris WS and Wrenn GL. 1964. Historic Structures Report: Duck Pond, Part I, Adams National Historic Site. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Quincy, Massachussets
The Duck Pond, identified as Structure Number 5 in the Historic Structures Inventory, is used in the interpretation of the historic scene at Adams National Historic Site. It was part of the life and property of four generations of the Adams family who lived in the Old House in Quincy. The report provides administrative data, historical data, architectural and landscape data, and archeological data for the management of the pond. Excavation for the pond was first made by John Adams around 1821. In 1850, Charles Francis Adams installed drains to reclaim the meadow. Ducks were kept on the pond when Brooks Adams lived here. The natural water supply was cut off after 1927 when culverts were built. After that, the pond filled in winter and spring and dried out in each summer. As part of the interpretive program, the Master Plan provides that all the land on the site be maintained as it was when the Old House was occupied by the family. In order to restore the pond to and maintain it at the level it was during its historic period, it is proposed to let the pond dry out, clean it out, restore the historic contours banking it where necessary, install an underground water supply pipe to feed it, and install an underground drain to maintain the water at the correct level.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Harris, Wilhelmina; Wrenn, George
- Date of Issue
- 1964-05
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- ADAM , NER
- Keywords
- Brooks Adams, Charles Francis Adams, drainage, ducks, Fish Pond, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Old House, pond, Quincy
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000011: Adams Estate - Duck Pond