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TOWN OF ARLINGTON

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Jefferson Cutter House is now situated in Whittemore Park in Arlington Center. The kid remaining railroad tracks on the Minuteman Bikeway are Preserved here. LOCATED just 7 miles northwest of Boston, Arlington today is a highly developed residential community. A few hundred feet from the Arlington endpoint of the bikeway, the AleutZfe Station provides convenient sub- way service for commuters into Cambridge and Boston. To the west of the Alewife/Route-2 area, East Arlington was a major market garden area for metropolitan Boston until the mid-1940s - where today two-family houses sit on 4000-square-foot lots. Heading west toward Arlington Center, you first come to Spy Pond, one of Arlington's most beautiful natural resources. Before modern refrigeration, Spy Pond was used for ice harvesting. Today, Spy Pond offers sailing and wind surfing as well as several acres of public park land. Continuing from Spy Pond, you come into Arlington Center. Consider touring the recently restored Jefferson Cutter House, which was moved down Massachusetts Avenue in 1989 and completely restored at its current location in Whittemore Path, right in the middle of town. In addition, many shops and restaurants are nearby. Heading toward Lexington, you first pass through the Arlington Heights district. Here, you travel beside the last remaining lumberyard once served by the railroad; the original railway served five major lumberyards in Arlington, Lexington, and Bedford. On the Lexington border, the Arlington Reservoir features a mile-long walking path, a public swimming and beach area in summer, and ice-skating in winter. The MilI Brook, which parallels the bikeway corridor through town, once powered the many mills located in this valley. The Old Schwamb Mill, originally waterpowered by the Mill Brook, is located near the Minuteman Bikeway, on Mill Lane in Arlington Heights. This 1873 photograph shows the millworkers. This 1854 print shows some of Arlington's famous ice-houses along the shores of Spy Pond. Here, workers cut and stored massive blocks office. The ice was then transported via the rail-road to Charlestown, where it was shipped as far away as India and South America. Although the ice-houses are long gone, Spy Pond remains one of Arlington’s primary recreational areas. However swimming if not allowed and the pond's spring-fed water is no longer safe for conversion to ice. (The train in the back-ground runs along what if now the bikeway.)

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