Monroe to preserve 65 acres of Benedict family farm as open space
The Monroe Sun by Bill Bittar
MONROE, CT — A gap in a stonewall along 35 Old Newtown Road opens up to 65-acres of farmland that has been in the Benedict family for over 100 years. Rebecca Benedict Bottomley, who now lives in Massachusetts, remembers training and riding horses, and playing on the property with her brothers as children, roaming in the fields, and sledding down a steep hill in the wintertime.
On Monday morning, public officials celebrated the town of Monroe and Aspetuck Land Trust‘s $3 million purchase of the site, which will be preserved as open space. The transaction was aided by a $1.8 million Open Space Watershed Land Acquisition (OSWA) grant from the state of Connecticut.