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[p. 20] Gorham Brooks, made a gift to the city of the Flat Iron lot on Grove street for a public park.
In 1926 another portion of that estate was made over as a bird sanctuary open to the public, the latest of the many benefactions which are barely listed here.
It was two hundred and sixty-seven years ago that the original estate came into the ownership of the Brooks family.
In the course of those years it has been divided and subdivided.
Much of it has gone into other hands.
Of the original domain there is still retained in the later generations of the family a generous spread of acres of both open and wooded land.
Some of the changes that have come to pass in these landholdings I have noted here.
Happily it is not for us yet to record the passing of the entire estate.
Medford, MA. 1927.
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