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Directions:
Located at the intersection of Hills Church Road and
Beulah Lane
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GPS:
N 40° 27.611
W 79° 38.295
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Property
Description
The Caywood Reserve offers a link up between Townsend Park to
the west and Walter Nature Reserve to the east. Jane Caywood
willed part of her property to the Westmoreland Conservancy in
2005 (a 34 acre plot from the 102 acre parcel). Now that she no
longer needed her house on the 35 acre plot, we had an
opportunity to switch it with the devise. This switch would give
us a land bridge from MCP to within about 1600 feet of King.
Acquisition of eight acres on the western end of the 102 acre
parcel would give us access a public road and place us within
700 feet of the King Reserve. The court and the heirs approved
the land switch and the heirs agreed to our acquisition of eight
acres on the west end of the 102 acre parcel. And the
municipality approved a three lot subdivision of the 102 acre
parcel. Dominion Gas grave us permission to cross their
property. Shagbark Grove Real Estate deeded us a right of way
along the northern boundary of lot 10, finally closing the 700
feet gap between MCP and King. The Murrysville Community park is
adjacent to this reserve (on the east). The Caywood Reserve has
been several years in planning (see
Caywood article,
Newsletter, Jan 2009) and has
opened wonderful possibilities for us. Included among them: a
site-to-site trail proposed cooperatively through Conservancy
and Municipal properties along this green corridor.
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