Scoy Pond Trail Walk Through the Grace Estate and Grassy Hollow Preserve With Dai Dayton. This free walk is for adults, teens, and children ages 10 and older.
Walk Leader: Dai Dayton, President, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt and Secretary, Southampton Trails Preservation Society
This walk moderately paced 3-mile walk through parts of the Grace Estate and Grassy Hollow preserves. In the 1700’s, Northwest was a bustling agricultural and commercial community with a first-class harbor, fifteen large farms, a mill, 2 wharves, warehouses, a fish factory and a thriving trade with New England which then disappeared by the end of the 1890’s. Today the Grace Estate and Grassy Hollow have returned to their natural state. Primarily oak-pine forest, the preserves are riddled with kettle-hole wetlands formed when huge blocks of ice deposited by the last glacier melted in place. The main trail leads through the woodlands with beautiful harbor views and past the Van Scoy-Edwards cemetery, “a small, isolated family burial place dating from 1782-1884, one of the most significant surviving evidence of the early East Hampton colony featuring “sandstone, marble, and zinc markers typical of the 19th century. The cemetery has been nominated for both the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
This is a free program. Advanced reservations are required for all events. To register for this program, please contact us at info@sofo.org or call 631-537-9735.
