Questing

Questing IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape
Entrance to the reserve
location	Massachusetts , United States
surface	177 ha
WDPA ID	55554246
Geographical location	42 ° 8 ′  N , 73 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 7 ′ 44 "  N , 73 ° 15 ′ 3"  W
Setup date	1996
administration	The Trustees of Reservations

Questing is a 438  acres (1.8  km² ) nature reserve near New Marlborough in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It is managed by The Trustees of Reservations organization.

Protected area

Today's reserve was used in the 20th century for more than 50 years as a summer resort for Robert and Jane Fraser Lehman that their property after the mythical creatures Questing Beast ( English Questing Beast ) from the Arthurian legend named.

The Indians already moved through the area and may have also settled there. From records indicate that by the settlers on the highest point of that reserve, the 1,457  ft (444.1  m ) high Leffingwell Hill , the first fort to store gunpowder was built. The Brookins twins were the first non-Indian children to be born there. In the following years, the land was largely cleared step by step. In the mid-19th century, the two brothers William and Jerome Leffingwell, after whom the hill is named today, farmed the area. However, both were killed in industrial accidents and her family moved on to the Midwest . A number of other families took over the farm, but they too gave up after a while. In the early 20th century, operations were finally closed and the first of the trees that are standing again today began to grow. The ruins of the old farmhouse can still be seen today.

Robert Lehman was a well-known pharmacologist and developed important drugs for the treatment of heart defects , glaucoma and other diseases. In 1996 he bequeathed the property to the trustees, who added it to a neighboring parcel that had been preserved by Richard Sellew in 1992 and established the protected area.

Visitors have a total of 2  mi (3.2  km ) of hiking trails that run past a 17 acres (6.9 hectare) field of wildflowers and through the woods around Leffingwell Hill .

See also

• List of protected areas of the Trustees of Reservations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Property History. The Trustees of Reservations , accessed May 4, 2014 . 
2. ↑ About Questing. The Trustees of Reservations , accessed May 4, 2014 . 

Web links

• Leffingwell Hill in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
• Questing on TripAdvisor