Land Donors

More than 75% of all of the Foundation’s property was donated by the following individuals whose generosity in protecting these open spaces has significantly contributed to maintaining the beauty and quality of life that is experienced on Nantucket today.

Property Number	Property Location	Donor	Area in Acres	Neighborhood
1	North Beach Street	North Beach Street	0.9	Town
2	Madaket	Steven K. Herlitz	0.4	Smith Point
3	Coatue	The Heirs of Marie M. Abbott	178.1	Coatue
4	Eel Point	The Everett and Connor Families in memory of Henry C. Everett and Edward F. Connor	109.0	Eel Point
5	Middle Moors	Tabitha T. Krauthoff in memory of her father, Paul N. Turner	278.2	Middle Moors
6	Little Neck	Walter Beinecke, Jr. and Mary Ann Beinecke	23.1	Little Neck
7	Middle Moors	H. Jerome Ayers, Abby A. Ayers, and Alicia Heller	12.0	Middle Moors
8	Middle Moors	Roy E. Larsen	70.0	Middle Moors
9	South Pasture	Margaret Z. and Roy E. Larsen	513.0	South Pasture
10	Eel Point	Alfred F. Sanford III	7.9	Eel Point
11	Cisco	Walter Beinecke, Jr., Roy E. Larsen, and Ruth J. C. Bartam (with the consent on the donors, this 36.7 acre property was conveyed to the Nantucket Islands Land Bank Commission in 2000)		Smooth Hummocks
12	Milestone Cranberry Bog	Walter Beinecke, Jr., The Larsen Fund, and the Nantucket Ornithological Association	737.0	Milestone Cranberry Bog
13	Tom Nevers	Walter Beinecke, Jr., The Larsen Fund, and the Nantucket Ornithological Association	322.0	Tom Nevers
14	Head of the Plains	Anne W. Sanford and Mr. & Mrs. Frank H. Low	211.0	Head of the Plains
15	Milestone Road (Conservation Restriction)	Dr. David B. Voorhees	7.4	South Pasture
16	Tom Nevers Pond	William V. Lawrence	3.5	Tom Nevers
17	Head of the Plains	James M. and Louise Joan Andrew	24.4	Head of the Plains
18	West Chester Street	Mr. & Mrs. Edward Rotan	3.1	Cliff Road
19	Cisco	Hugh W. Sanford, Jr., Alfred F. Sanford II, Katherine Sanford Deutsch, Cornelius C. Bond, Cornelius C. Bond, Jr., Jackson S. Bond, Sanford Bond, and Margaret Bond McMath	9.2	Smooth Hummocks
20	Cliff Road	Dr. & Mrs. Stephen L. Gumport	3.9	Cliff Road
21	Brant Point	Mrs. William H. Claflin and Mrs. W.S. Archibald, Jr.	4.8	Town
22	Squam Pond	The Estate of Annette Evans	5.8	Squam
23	Ram Pasture and The Woods	Purchased by NCF	515.3	Sanford Farm & Ram Pasture
24	Ram Pasture and The Woods	Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Congdon and Dr. & Mrs. Ernest H. Menges	118.7	Sanford Farm & Ram Pasture
25	Capaum Pond	Gilbert Verney	13.6	Capaum Pond
26	Middle Moors	Mr. & Mrs. Timothy King	9.8	Middle Moors
27	Eel Point East	Alfred F. Sanford III	4.1	Eel Point
28	Cisco	Edith A. Gifford	3.0	Smooth Hummocks
29	Head of the Plains	Mr. & Mrs. Fred Gardner, Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Mooney, and Mr. & Mrs. Carl M. Mueller	57.1	Head of the Plains
31	South Pasture	Alfred F. Sanford II, Hugh W. Sanford, Jr., and George A. Fowlkes	417.1	South Pasture
32	Coatue	Mrs. William B.H. Sawyer	47.1	Coatue
33	Cisco	Mr. & Mrs. Norman L. Olsen	1.3	Smooth Hummocks
34	Cisco	Benjamin Sharp Richmond	1.4	Smooth Hummocks
35	Milestone Road	Albert M. Lewis in memory of Charles Lewis (gift of undivided 50% interest with remaining title purched by NCF)	7.0	Milestone Road
36	Warren's Landing	Mr. & Mrs. Frederick W. Haffenreffer	2.2	Warren's Landing
37	Middle Moors	Purchased by NCF	310.1	Middle Moors
38	Polpis Harbor	Mr. & Mrs. Bernard D. Grossman (with the consent on the donors, this 0.2 acre property was conveyed to the Town of Nantucket)
39	Milestone Road	Mr. & Mrs. Alton E. Peters in memory of Judge Joseph Rosch
40	Coatue	Mr. & Mrs. Alexander M. Craig, Jr. and Amy Ann C. Doran	20.0	Coatue
41	Coatue	Mr. & Mrs. Alexander M. Craig, Jr. and Amy Ann C. Doran	13.3	Coatue
42	South Pasture	Mr. & Mrs. Albert G. Brock and Dr. & Mrs. Fred L. Chase	64.0	South Pasture
43	Smooth Hummocks	Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Wight	2.3	Smooth Hummocks
44	Surfside	Robert McK. Thomas, Jr.	1.1	Surfside
45	Coatue	Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Moore, Mrs. Sheron C. Lowe, Mrs. Hayden C. Hurley, and Mr. & Mrs. Alexander M. Craig, Jr.	20.0	Coatue
46	Four Sheep Commons	Purchased by NCF
47	Madaket	Cynthia T. Twining	0.2	Smith Point
48	Middle Moors	Mr. & Mrs. J. Seward Johnson, Jr.	52.1	Middle Moors
49	One Sheep Common	Franklin F. Webster
50	Gosnold Road	James M. & Louise Joan Andrews	2.9	Cliff Road
51	Saul's Hills (Conservation Restriction)	Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Page (title subsequently purchased by NCF)	3.0	Middle Moors
52	Saul's Hills	Purchased by NCF	73.9	Middle Moors
53	Pest House Pond	Shimmo Association, Inc.	3.6	Shimmo
55	Head of the Plains	Alice Cary Williams	3.5	Head of the Plains
56	Madequecham Valley	Purchased by NCF	108.7	South Pasture
57	West Chester Street	Nantucket Historical Trust	3.0	West Chester Street
58	Hither Creek	Thomas E. and Constance Drake	13.8	Warren's Landing
59	Cliff Road (Conservation Restriction & Fee Interest)	Mr. & Mrs. Oswald Tupancy (title to this parcel was a bequest from Mr. Tupancy)	6.6	Cliff Road
60	Middle Moors	Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Richardson, Jr.	19.1	Middle Moors
61	Middle Moors	Tabitha T. Krauthoff in memory of her father, Paul N. Turner	323.4	Middle Moors
62	The Creeks	George Barrett, Elizabeth Diotte, Priscilla C. Mayhew, Henry Coleman, and Rozelle Jones	2.0	The Creeks
63	Head of the Plains	Dr. Neal Nathanson and Dr. Constance A. Nathanson	11.5	Head of the Plains
64	Brant Point	Theodore L. Cross	0.3	Town
65	Shawkemo	Mr. & Mrs. Stewart MacDougall	3.8	Shawkemo
66	Trot's Hills	Mrs. Richard Wengren	5.1	Trot's Hills
67	Orange Street	Mr. & Mrs. Edward E. Backus, Sr.	0.1	Town
68	The Creeks	Richard S. Lovelace, Clarence S. Lovelace, and Caroline L. Brown	5.8	The Creeks
69	Milestone Road	Nantucket Beach Properties, Inc.	7.8	Tom Nevers
70	Milestone Road (Conservation Restriction)	Nantucket Beach Properties, Inc.	1.9	Tom Nevers
71	Middle Moors	Mrs. Burr P. Wilson	6.8	Middle Moors
72	Pocomo Meadows & Medouie Marsh (Conservation Restriction and Fee Interest)	Theodore L. Cross, E. William Henry, Mr. & Mrs. John P. Horgan, Mr. & Mrs. Arnold H. Vollmer, Mr. & Mrs. Christopher M. Weld, John R. Wierdsma, Eulie H. Wierdsma, Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. Childs, A. Bliss McCrum, Jr. and Mr. & Mrs. Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. (undivided 73% interest)	189.0	Medouie Creek
73	Quidnet Road	Dr. Edward B. Swain and Nancy M. Swain (undivided 10% interest)	12.8	Squam
75	Madaket Road	B.F.D. Runk	1.0	Madaket Road
76	Coatue	Elizabeth Sharp de Sieyes in memory of Benjamin Karl Sharp; Mr. Randolph Sharp (undivided 77% interest)	12.6	Coatue
77	Coatue	Mr. & Mrs. Alexander M. Craig, Jr. and Amy Ann C. Doran	30.0	Coatue
78	Medouie Marsh	Theodore L. Cross	8.7	Medouie Creek
79	Quaise	Mr. & Mrs. C. Harold Taylor	10.0	Quaise
80	Squam Swamp	Walter H. Sangree and Mary L. Sangree (gift of undivided 30% interest with remaining title purchased by NCF)	29.8	Squam
81	Cisco	Charles A. Ernst, Jr., Russel J. Fosbinder, and Louise Ernst Glass	3.7	Smooth Hummocks
82	Pest House Pond	Mrs. I. H. Burnside	1.0	Shimmo
83	Head of the Plains	Robert B. Clark	4.5	Head of the Plains
84	Head of the Plains	Robert B. Clark and Steven K. Herlitz	22.9	Head of the Plains
85	Tom Nevers	Ann B. Oliver	3.5	Tom Nevers
86	Medouie Marsh	Theodore B. Cross	4.2	Medouie Creek
87	Tom Nevers	Caroline B. Pauley, Peter S. Pauley, H. Williamson Ghriskey, Jackson S. Bond, and Dr. James W. Wall	43.7	Tom Nevers
88	Tom Nevers	Purchased by NCF and gifts of Lucy Fowlkes Breed and Mr. & Mrs. Allen P. Mills	67.9	Tom Nevers
89	Head of the Plains	Theodore L. Cross	16.0	Head of the Plains
90	Madequecham Valley	Purchased by NCF	67.2	South Pasture
91	Larsen Park	The Larsen Fund	0.1	Siasconset
92	Long Pond	The Rev. John U. Harris	3.1	Head of the Plains
93	Head of the Plains	Robert B. Clark	23.0	Head of the Plains
94	Cliff Road	Oswald A. Tupancy	4.5	Cliff Road
95	Shawkemo	Jonathan Z. Larsen and Katherine W. Larsen	9.9	Shawkemo
96	Tom Nevers	Mr. & Mrs. Sherwood W. Smith	18.1	Tom Nevers
97	Shawkemo	Amos B. Hostetter, Jr.	13.7	Shawkemo
98	Low Beach/Tom Nevers/Head of the Plains	Ann B. Oliver	10.7	Tom Nevers
99	Pocomo	Merlin E. Nelson	8.3	Pocomo
100	Warren's Landing	Mr. & Mrs. Frederick W. Haffenreffer	8.6	Warren's Landing
101	Quaise	Mr. & Mrs. C. Harold Taylor	7.2	Quaise
102	Windswept Cranberry Bog	A purchase by NCF made possible in part by a bequest from Eleanor Ham	205.6	Windswept Cranberry Bog
103	Polpis Road	Mrs. Wayne F. Holmes	8.0	Windswept Cranberry Bog
104	Pocomo Road	Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Robinson	12.2	Pocomo
105	Larsen-Sanford Center	Purchased by NCF	1.1	Cliff Road Area
106	Coatue	Bequest of Laurence K. Marshall	16.7	Coatue
107	Monomoy	John L. Lyman	4.9	Shimmo
108	Cisco	Elizabeth Lloyd Carter, Anne R. Ferguson, Janet R. McIntyre, Katherine W. Petrie, H. Ward Reighley, and William A. Wiedersheim	2.8	Smooth Hummocks
109	Head of the Plains	Robert B. Clark	13.9	Head of the Plains
110	Tom Nevers	Mr. & Mrs. William B. Coolidge	0.2	Tom Nevers
111	Coatue	Mr. & Mrs. Bernard D. Grossman	10.0	Coatue
112	Cliff Road/The Tupancy Links	Mr. & Mrs. Oswald A. Tupancy	62.2	Cliff Road
113	Sturgis Pines	Barbara Beinecke	10.0	Sturgis Pines
114	Head of the Plains	Mr. & Mrs. Frank H. Low	7.5	Head of the Plains
115	Shimmo	Charles J. Webb II	2.4	Shimmo
116	Head of the Plains	Theodore L. Cross	18.7	Head of the Plains
117	Madequecham Valley	Janet R. McIntyre, H. Ward Reighley, Ann R. Ferguson, Barbara A. Ferguson, Elizabeth R. Ferguson, and G. Neil Ferguson	164.7	South Pasture
118	Miacomet	Walter Beinecke, Jr. Family (with the consent on the donors, this 7.5 acre property was conveyed to the Nantucket Islands Land Bank Commission)
119	Shawkemo	Louise S. Lehrman	7.3	Shawkemo
120	Madaket Road	Purchased by NCF	36.9	Madaket Road
121	Madequecham Valley	Purchased by NCF	91.7	South Pastures
122	Polpis Harbor	Medouie Creek Association	1.4	Medouie Creek
123	Madaket	Mr. & Mrs. Ralph L. Murray	0.2	Smith Point
124	Warren's Landing	Purchased by NCF	0.6	Warren's Landing
126	Head of the Plains	Theodore L. Cross	14.9	Head of the Plains
127	Polpis Road	Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. F. Harleman	1.2	Shawkemo
128	Head of the Plains	Robert S. Landauer, Jr.	2.1	Head of the Plains
129	Eel Point	Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Watts, Jr.	2.3	Eel Point
130	Shawkemo	Bequests of Dorothy Rawson and Marion Rawson with the gift of a life estate by Edward Rawson	6.7	Shawkemo
131	Shawkemo	Jonathan Z. Larsen, Katherine W. Larsen, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr., and Mr. & Mrs. John F. Gifford	3.8	Shawkemo
132	Madaket	Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Bartlett	0.5	Smith Point
133	Windswept Cranberry Bog	James H. Evans	16.8	Windswept Cranberry Bog
134	Coatue	Amy Ann C. Doran	6.8	Coatue
135	Squam Swamp	Purchased by NCF with special support from the residents of Wauwinet, Squam, and Pocomo	291.7	Squam
136	Madaket Road	James G. Robinson	24.1	Madaket Road
137	Milestone Road	Howard M. Jelleme, Lydle L. Rickard, John J. Shugrue, and Richard S. Sylvia	3.2	Milestone Road
138	Saul's Hills	Purchased by NCF	3.0	Middle Moors
139	Middle Moors	Leeds Mitchell, Jr.	4.4	Middle Moors
140	Windswept Cranberry Bog	Day Family Trust	7.6	Windswept Cranberry Bog
141	Ram Pasture	Norwood Farm Trust	18.1	Sanford Farm & Ram Pasture
142	Middle Moors	A purchase by NCF made possible by a gift from Mrs. Alfred S. Mills given in loving memory of her husband	31.6	Middle Moors
143	Hither Creek	Thomas E. Drake	11.2	Warren's Landing
144	Middle Moors	Open Land Fund, Inc.		Middle Moors
145	Pocomo Road	Mr. & Mrs. E. V. Huggins	3.1	Pocomo
146	Madaket Road/The Sanford Farm	Purchased by NCF	133.5	Sanford Farm & Ram Pasture
147	Coatue	Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Kozar	0.1	Coatue
148	Head of Hummock Pond	Mr. & Mrs. David Halberstam	1.8	Sanford Farm & Ram Pasture
149	Shawkemo	E. Elaine Gifford, John F. Gifford, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr., and Jonathan Z. Larsen	1.8	Shawkemo
150	Middle Moors	Lester R. Giegerich, Marsha G. Torkelson, and Brenda K. Giegerich	17.5	Middle Moors
151	Middle Moors	Margaret Z. Larsen	2.8	Middle Moors
152	Squam	Mr. & Mrs. Albin C. Koch	4.6	Squam
153	Coatue	Purchased by NCF	14.4	Coatue
154	Coatue	Purchased by NCF	14.4	Coatue
155	Altar Rock	Purchased by NCF	18.4	Middle Moors
156	Smooth Hummocks	E. Garret Bewkes, Jr.	1.9	Smooth Hummocks
157	Grove Lane	Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Hallowell, Jr.	2.2	Cliff Road
158	Middle Moors	Purchased by NCF	269.0	Middle Moors
159	Wauwinet Gatehouse	Stephen A. Lindsay and Peter B. Seaman	0.2	Wauwinet
160	Coatue	Amy Ann C. Doran	8.3	Coatue
161	Middle Moors	Purchased by NCF		Middle Moors
162	Middle Moors	A purchase by NCF made possible in part by a bequest from Scott Maclain	34.0	Middle Moors
163	Squam Swamp	Purchased by NCF	7.5	Squam
164	Windswept Cranberry Bog	Bargain sale from Rosemary Hall Evans	3.2	Windswept Cranberry Bog
165	Shawkemo	Mr. & Mrs. John F. Gifford	16.8	Shawkemo
166	Milestone Road	Nantucket Beach Properties, Inc.	11.7	Tom Nevers
167	Toupchue Valley	Purchased by NCF	9.0	South Pasture
168	Coatue	Mrs. Denny Doran and Mrs. Jamie Cleary	2.8	Coatue
169	Quaise	Purchased by NCF and a gift of Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Jay	13.8	Quaise
170	Washing Pond Road (Conservation Restriction	Estate of Oswald A. Tupancy		Cliff Road
171	Middle Moors	Mr. & Mrs. Lester R. Giegerich, Marsha G. Torkelson, and Brenda K. Giegerich	17.7	Middle Moors
172	Middle Moors	Mr. & Mrs. Lester R. Giegerich, Marsha G. Torkelson, and Brenda K. Giegerich	3.5	Middle Moors
173	South Pastures	Rachel L. Mellon	60.0	South Pastures
174	The Haulover	Purchased by NCF and gifts of Linda T. Sziklas and Lisa W. Sziklas	104.2	The Haulover
175	Head of the Plains	Purchased by NCF	12.0	Head Of the Plains
176	Squam Swamp	Purchased by NCF	6.5	Squam
177	Warren's Landing	A memorial to Rosemarie Dileo Landauer from her family	8.2	Warren's Landing
178	North Pasture Lane	Richard A. Beckwith, Richard W. Herbst, and Robert E. Mercer	0.7	Middle Moors
180	Polpis Road/Leedsmoor	Leeds Mitchell, Jr. and Juliet W. Bischoff	16.8	Leedsmoor
181	Middle Moors	Purchased by NCF and a gift of Conantum Trust	35.5	Middle Moors
182	Madaket Road	Purchased by NCF	16.3	Madaket Road
183	Polpis Road	Purchased by NCF	3.9	Middle Moors
184	Shawkemo	Jonathan Z. Larsen	4.7	Shawkemo
185	Polpis Road	Purchased by NCF	7.0	Middle Moors
186	Ram's Head	Purchased by NCF	12.3	Sanford Farm & Ram Pasture
187	South Pasture	Purchased by NCF	26.0	South Pasture
188	Squam Farm (Conservation Restriction)	Gloria J. Grimshaw (this 9.4 acre property is included in No. 202)		Squam
189		Anonymous gift subject to reserved life estates	4.2	Squam
190	Smooth Hummocks	Bequest of Leila Laughlin McKnight	20.1	Smooth Hummocks
191	Middle Moors	Maria Mitchell Association	8.9	Middle Moors
192	Polpis Road	Purchased by NCF	3.1	Polpis
193	Coatue	Purchased by NCF	0.8	Coatue
194	Squam	Mr. and Mrs. Alban C. Koch	5.9	Squam
195	Trots Hills	Purchased by NCF	1.9	Trots Hills
196	Coatue	Purchased by NCF with the special cooperation & kindness of George E. Andrews, Barbara P. Andrews and Edith F. Andrews	10.6	Coatue
197	Shawkemo	Mr. and Mrs. John H. Davis	30.3	Shawkemo
198	Milestone Road	Purchased by NCF with funds received from the Nantucket Green Fund, the estate of Esther U. Gibbs, the Nantucket Garden Club, the Nantucket High School Class of 1998, the Allegheny Foundation and an anonymous island resident	3.4	Milestone
199	Andrews Long Waters	Purchased by NCF in partnership with the Nantucket Land Council, Inc.;made possible in part by a grant from the Jane Carlee Charitable Trust	12.5	Squam
200	Tom Nevers	Jeffrey Kaschuluk	20.8	Tom Nevers
201	North Avenue	Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Gewirz	0.4
202	Squam Farm	Purchased by NCF; includes the fee interest in the restricted property listed as No. 188	50.2	Squam Farm
203	Tom Nevers	Bequest of Susan H. Timken; an additional 7.9 acres were received and, with the consent of the estate, conveyed to the Nantucket Islands Land Bank	31.3	Tom Nevers
204	Squam Farm	Nantucket Land Council, Inc.	0.5	Squam
205	Tom Nevers	Sandpiper Close Real Estate Trust (with the consent of the donors, this 30.1 acres property was conveyed to the Nantucket Islands Land Bank in 2005)		Tom Nevers
206	Moor End Farm (Agricultural Preservation Restriction)	Purchased by the NCF; the fee was purchased by the Nantucket Islands Land Bank with assistance from NCF (no access)	12.9	Shawkemo
207	Gosnold Road	Purchased by NCF	1.1	Cliff Road
208	Squam Farm	Nantucket Land Council, Inc.	90.3	Squam
209	Squam Farm	Purchased by NCF from the Nantucket Land Council, Inc.	17.0	Squam
210	University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station	Purchased by NCF	110.0	Polpis
211	Polpis Road	Purchased by NCF and a gift from the Norwood Farm Trust	13.2	Polpis
212	South Pasture	Rachel L. Mellon	47.3	Madequecham
213	Norwood Farm	Purchased by NCF	131.4	Middle Moors
214	Norwood Farm (additional parcel)	Purchased by NCF	12.5	Middle Moors
215	Coatue Ranger Cabin	Gift from The Craig Sisters	3.0	Coatue
216	Shawkemo	Gift from David Rosenzweig	2.75	Shawkemo
217	Quidnet	Gift from Robert Landreth	0.46	Quidnet
218	Shawkemo	Purchase from David Rosenzweig	8.0	Shawkemo

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