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Northshore October 2025
As part of its ongoing effort to grapple with the region's often-problematic racial legacy, The Trustees of Reservations has, for the first time in its 130-year history, renamed on of its properties. The organization changed the name of Agassiz Rock in Manchester to The Monoliths, a reference to the two massive granite boulders that are among the property's most notable feature. Louis Agassiz, the 19th-century biologist and geologist for whom the property was originally named, theorized that the boulders dotting the New England landscape were deposited by glaciers rather than being left behind by the Biblical flood, as was commonly believ
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