Bay Farm

• The Kingston portion of Bay Farm was purchased in 1987 with assistance from state Self-Help funds and the Trust for Public Land.

• In 1987, the MA Department of Environmental Management (DEM) now Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) purchased the remaining 7.75-acre strip of woodland within Kingston and along the Duxbury/Kingston line.

• The property consists of 36.75 acres in Kingston and 44 acres in Duxbury equaling 80.75 acres.

• The property is managed jointly through a Memorandum of Understanding amongst the three property owners (Duxbury, DCR & Kingston)

• The property marks the southern terminus of the Bay Circuit Trail which begins on the North Shore on Plum Island.

• Wildlife includes plentiful birds like the bobolink and raptors in the field as well as coastal waterbirds in the bay, fox, coyote, white-tailed deer, and fireflies, among many others.

• The large outcropping of rocks on the bay is known as Cedar Rocks.

• In 1627, Duxbury landowners started farming the land.

• Much later in the early 1900’s the farm became a dairy farm run by Atherton Loring as the Bay Farm Company. The farm had cows, horses, hogs, and chickens.

• In late 1940’s, the White Brothers purchased the farm while the barn, stables and several outbuildings were purchased by the Duxbury Playhouse and converted into a theater with a revolving stage where plays were produced until 1950.