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Mr.
John Lambert, land-use lawyer, conveyed the following history
of the Branford Land Trust's’s Washburn property which might
be of interest to future biographers of the site:
Prior owners of the Washburn site were the Branford Granite
Company (until 1900) at which time it was bought by the Bullard
family from Fairfield, CT. The Bullards sold the property
to Albert Lincoln Washburn in 1963. Mr. Washburn was a Professor
of Artic geology at Yale University. Mr. and Mrs. Washburn
subdivided the property in 1975-76(?) into a 4.5 acre lot
(bought by Professor Tom Steitz), a 2.5 acre parcel (bought
by James and Jennifer Walker) and the 17.8 acres donated to
the Branford Land Trust in 1976. Peter Neill, past president
of the Land Trust, was instrumental in the donation.
Professor Washburn graduated from Dartmouth University in
1935 and played in the Winter Olympics in Germany that year.
He apparently lives in Belleview, WA and is 95 years old.
Tom Cleveland, January 22, 2007
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read: Site Analysis of
the Washburn Property - Branford, Connecticut by
Tom Siccama, Lecturer and Director of Field Studies, Yale School
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The Washburn property
is highlighted in red. Other nearby Branford Land Trust properties
(in dark blue) include Ransome, Hentschel, Stony Creek Limited
Partnership, Reed and the Hoadley Creek Preserve. Yale University's
Peabody Museum Natural Area is in green.
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