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Middlesex County
=Steele Farm= 484 Middle Road Boxborough, Massachusetts 01719 Steele Farm webpage Steele Farm map

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Steele Farm, Boxborough
Coordinates: 42.4900654, -71.5231467 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Steele Farm
The view from Steele Farm is one of the town’s most beautiful scenic vistas. The fields have been used seasonally for pasturing cattle. Remnants of a Christmas tree farm on the site have provided trees for residents until recently. Glades of spruce and pines are now reaching maturity. There are also remnants of an apple orchard on the western hillside. Two ponds provide refuge for waterfowl and bird life. The back, or southern end, of the parcel is wetlands.

Steele Farm contains a historic farmhouse and barn. The farmhouse in an 18th-century post and beam structure. The barn was built to replace a previous one blown down in the 1958 hurricane. The foundation for the barn includes parts of gravestones from the North Cemetery that were damaged or destroyed by falling trees during the same hurricane. The ice house on the Steele Farm property was donated by the West family of Boxborough in 1997 and moved to its current site by volunteers from the Boxborough Historical Society in 1998. For more information on the ice house, please visit the Boxborough Historical Society’s homepage which can be found on the town’s website under community organizations.

The Steele Farm portion of this site is managed by the Steele Farm Advisory Committee. From Steele Farm webpage

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