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Ancient Stone Landscapes

Several years ago a landowner in western Massachusetts discovered remnants of potentially significant prehistoric stone formations on land she has been restoring to its pre-Columbian state as a natural orchard. While she seeks to validate her observations and identify a long-term steward for the land, Equity Trust made a loan to enable her to purchase an adjacent property with additional formations. She is in the process of donating conservation easements over all of the land to Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, and Equity Trust holds an option to purchase the land she acquired with our loan if she has not transferred it to an appropriate caretaker within twenty years.