
Nash’s Pond (Photo/Rowene Weems Photography)
Nash’s Pond (Photo/Rowene Weems Photography)
Nash’s Pond sunrise (Photo/Trish Freeman)
Reflections on the lake at Mayflower Parkway at Richard Drive … (Photo/Amy Schneider)
… and Nash’s Pond (Photo/Linda Stern)
Nash’s Pond (Photo/Linda Stern)
The manmade structure looks like the old telephone switching station on Myrtle Avenue, opposite Sconset Square. Deadman’s Brook flows past it.
But readers who thought that was the answer to last week’s Photo Challenge did not look closely, at the waterfall in the background.
There’s no waterfall near downtown. But there is at one end of Nash’s Pond. Peter Tulupman’s photo showed he spillway near the dam and former icehouse, at Kings Highway North. (Click here to see.)
From there the water flows as Stony Brook, underneath Post Road West. It re-emerges at Sylvan Road and Riverside Avenue, where it empties into the Saugatuck River.
Elaine Marino, Diane Silfen, Jalna Jaeger, Eric Bosch, Bobbie Herman, Wendy Cusick, Dave Brown, Dave Eason, Lynn Untermeyer Miller and Derek Fuchs all knew the Nash’s Pond answer.
So did Kristan M. Nash. Then again, she should!
Can she — or anyone — guess this week’s Photo Challenge? If you know where in Westport it is, click “Comments.”
(Photo/Dick Lowenstein)
Generations of Westporters have swum in, skated on or otherwise enjoyed Nash’s Pond.
The “modern” pond was formed in 1879, when the Nash family erected a dam and 3 icehouses. Workers harvested ice each winter. It was stored through summer, sawed into blocks, then sent to New York for sale.
In 1937 — after the ice business, but before most homes were built along “Nash’s Woods and Pond” — it looked like this:
What are your memories of Nash’s Pond? Click “Comments” below.