. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Lives in Old House near Picturesque Leonard's Pond. taken around the edges of tihe vari- OLis pieces of bog by a canal. There is a second canal or ditch from Leonard's which takes the water around the bogs into a swamp used as a reservoir. There is still another source of water. This is from a little pond known as "Humphrey's Mill ; This is a small piece of water from which the Hillers have a right to take water. There is one gss pump to use when water is abnormally low for flooding. There is also a second gas pump,
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Lives in Old House near Picturesque Leonard's Pond. taken around the edges of tihe vari- OLis pieces of bog by a canal. There is a second canal or ditch from Leonard's which takes the water around the bogs into a swamp used as a reservoir. There is still another source of water. This is from a little pond known as "Humphrey's Mill ; This is a small piece of water from which the Hillers have a right to take water. There is one gss pump to use when water is abnormally low for flooding. There is also a second gas pump, so Ihat water may be pumped back into the swamp reservoir. The Hiller bogs he along the Sippican river. With the sluiceway, canal and hrcsk all cogs can be flooded, or the water released from individual bogs withcu't going through any of the other bogs. There is an 8 foot drop from Leonard's Pond to the lowest end of the bogs. East-Over Farms is in an espe- cially attractive section of Old Ro- chester. With placid Leonard's pond, the usual foaming water running down the raceway, tall trees and several old yellow-pointed buildings the spot is one which invariably in- spires the passerby to remark "Isn't this a pretty spot," or something like that. East-Over Farms East-Over farms is along Mary's Pond road. First this was known to be an Indian trail, then a bridle path and later wagon and stage- coach highway, the principal route from historic Plymouth to the old whaling city of New Bedford. There was once a very early grist mill at Leonard's Pond. This Sippican mill site was later obtained by a Charles H. Leonard, who was a whale oil merchant in New Bedford. He built a great coun- try estate there, and probably gave the area the name of "East-Over," as it is east of New Bedford. Mr. Leonard built an elaborate mansion there, supposedly replacing or being remodeled from one built as early as 1756. There was a green- house in which were grown tropical plants. The
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