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Middlesex County
=Pine Banks Park= 1087 Main Street Malden, Massachusetts 02148 Pine Banks Park webpage Pine Banks Park map

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Pine Banks Park
Coordinates: 42.4415744, -71.0643768 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Pine Banks Park
Pine Banks Park is a very popular recreation area, with nine fields for baseball, softball, soccer and field hockey. Malden and Medford school teams, youth and adult leagues play here.

Former Mayor Elisha S. Converse left a 107.5-acre estate to the cities of Melrose and Malden in 1905 to be jointly used “forever as a public park” and managed by a nonprofit corporation comprised of a seven-member board of trustees from the two cities and a descendant of the Converse family. The will also stipulated that both cities must share equally in the cost of maintaining Pine Banks Park. History and Geology of the Land The site reportedly belonged originally to the Wampanoags in the early 1660s and the Lynde family in the early 1700s. Some of the natural features of Pine Banks Park are hundreds of large evergreens, especially white pines and cedars, rocky ledges, Mount Ephraim, lookouts, a pond, and wildlife. Millions of years ago, volcanoes altered the rocky areas and earthquakes created a fault line just south of the park. Thousands of years ago, mile high glaciers covered the land leaving an esker, a ridge formed as a rocky stream flowing under the ice, that today is a fascinating elevated walking path resembling a bridge. From Pine Banks Park webpage



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