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Nashoba Brook Educational Kiosk

Location:  On the "Trail Through Time," Nashoba Brook Conservation Land, East side of Main Street, North Acton, yellow-marked trail, closest to the Davis Road access point. 
Kiosk, Nashoba Brook Conservation Land
This kiosk is at the site of the Ebenezer Wood pencil factory on Nashoba Brook.  Educational panels describe "Life Along the Nashoba" (the stream's ecosystem), "Beyond the Banks" (the nearby landscape and the early people who inhabited it), "Mills Along Nashoba Brook," and "Early American Pencils."

For more information about the site and its history, see:
"Nashoba Brook," from Acton's Land Stewardship Committee

For information about Ebenezer Wood and his pencil factory, see:
"Pencil Factory"

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