Wellesley Free Library - Hills Branch LbNA #54363 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 6, 2010 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Wellesley |
| County: | Norfolk |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | WFL Children's staffers  |
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| Found by: | Roo |
| Last found: | Nov 4, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFm |
| Last edited: | Jul 6, 2010 |
Wellesley Free Library Hills Branch
This letterbox has gone missing. We'll provide a new one as soon as we can.
The Hills Branch of the Wellesley Free Library is located at 210 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02481. The letterbox is located outside, but if you’d like to visit the library during your letterbox visit, the hours and directions are listed at:
http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/info/wellesley.htm#1.
After parking in the library parking lot, look around for a large Copper Beech tree, so named because of the copper to dark purple colored leaves. Notice too, the smooth gray bark. (If you’re coming in leafless months, look for the big tree behind the book return bins.)
Follow the path to a lantern overhead.
Being very careful of the busy street, continue around the building and look for another Beech tree in the middle of the lawn. These Beech trees are not native New Englanders, but were transplanted from Europe because of their distinctive coloring and their potential for providing a shady spot to read. Once at this tree, take a look at the cupola of the building. Honk, honk, honk.
Continuing around the building, you will find a Mountain Ash tree on your right (the berries turn a bright orange in the fall), and a Horse Chestnut tree on your left, along with two small fruit trees. Don’t eat any chestnuts or fruit you may find – they’re strictly for the birds and might make you sick!
Now look for the ivy-covered chimney. Walk all the way around it.
Look for three Birch trees all in a row. Birch trees are trees with distinctive white bark. Notice how the number of trunks increase along the row. Go to the furthest one.
Find the entrance sign, go to it, and take the left-hand path down to a secluded patio. Take a deep breath – you’re almost done!
Now, remember what covered the chimney? It also makes a good ground cover, as well as a girl’s name. The letterbox is hidden in a patch of this below a commemorative plaque, near the base of a trellis.
Please try to be as gentle as possible with the living plants when finding and replacing the letterbox.
This letterbox has gone missing. We'll provide a new one as soon as we can.
The Hills Branch of the Wellesley Free Library is located at 210 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02481. The letterbox is located outside, but if you’d like to visit the library during your letterbox visit, the hours and directions are listed at:
http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/info/wellesley.htm#1.
After parking in the library parking lot, look around for a large Copper Beech tree, so named because of the copper to dark purple colored leaves. Notice too, the smooth gray bark. (If you’re coming in leafless months, look for the big tree behind the book return bins.)
Follow the path to a lantern overhead.
Being very careful of the busy street, continue around the building and look for another Beech tree in the middle of the lawn. These Beech trees are not native New Englanders, but were transplanted from Europe because of their distinctive coloring and their potential for providing a shady spot to read. Once at this tree, take a look at the cupola of the building. Honk, honk, honk.
Continuing around the building, you will find a Mountain Ash tree on your right (the berries turn a bright orange in the fall), and a Horse Chestnut tree on your left, along with two small fruit trees. Don’t eat any chestnuts or fruit you may find – they’re strictly for the birds and might make you sick!
Now look for the ivy-covered chimney. Walk all the way around it.
Look for three Birch trees all in a row. Birch trees are trees with distinctive white bark. Notice how the number of trunks increase along the row. Go to the furthest one.
Find the entrance sign, go to it, and take the left-hand path down to a secluded patio. Take a deep breath – you’re almost done!
Now, remember what covered the chimney? It also makes a good ground cover, as well as a girl’s name. The letterbox is hidden in a patch of this below a commemorative plaque, near the base of a trellis.
Please try to be as gentle as possible with the living plants when finding and replacing the letterbox.