Conserved Land in Acushnet Benefits Nearby Tripps Mill Brook

Acushnet resident Timothy Geggatt recently donated a conservation restriction on his 36-acre Acushnet property to the Buzzards Bay Coalition, ensuring that the property’s woodlands and open agricultural fields will be permanently protected from development. 

The property extends off Main Street toward the Rochester town line to include the upper reaches of Tripps Mill Brook, an important tributary that flows through the Coalition’s Mattapoisett River Reserve on its way to join the river’s mainstream.

The property has been in the Geggatt family since the 1940s as a working farm supported by high-quality agricultural soils.

Property owner Tim Geggatt’s grandfather purchased it and ran it as a dairy farm up until the mid-1960s. Once his mother passed, Geggatt was searching for an opportunity to conserve the land. “We didn’t want it to be developed,” he said. He remembers fondly heading into the land when he was a kid for “swamp trekking.”