Alexandra Dawson Wildlife Reserve

Alexandra Dawson Wildlife Reserve is a nature reserve in Town of Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Alexandra Dawson Wildlife Reserve is situated nearby to the hamlet Plainville, as well as near the suburb Amherst Center.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Emily Dickinson Museum and Mead Art Museum.

Emily Dickinson Museum

Museum

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The Emily Dickinson Museum is a historic house museum consisting of two houses: the Dickinson Homestead and the Evergreens. The Dickinson Homestead was the birthplace and home from 1855 to 1886 of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, whose poems were discovered in her bedroom there after her death.

Mead Art Museum

Museum

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Mead Art Museum houses the fine art collection of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, US. Opened in 1949, the building is named after architect William Rutherford Mead, of architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.

Mullins Center

Stadium

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The William D. Mullins Memorial Center, also known as the Mullins Center, is a 9,493-seat multi-purpose arena, located on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Amherst and Hadley.

Amherst

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Amherst is a town in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Amherst is home to about 35,000 residents as well as the campuses of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, and Hampshire College.

Hadley

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Hadley is a small town in the Pioneer Valley, in Western Massachusetts. Despite its small population, it has a reasonable commercial strip that harbors a few malls, providing a more mainstream shopping experience than its larger neighbors, Amherst and Northampton.

North Amherst

Suburb

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North Amherst is a census-designated place in the city of Amherst in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,819 at the 2010 census, up from 6,019 at the 2000 census.

Alexandra Dawson Wildlife Reserve

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Town of Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.3707° or 42° 22′ 14″ north

Longitude

-72.5403° or 72° 32′ 25″ west

Open location code

87J99FC5+7V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 867589879

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Plainville and Amherst Center.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include UMass Amherst Sunwheel and Amherst Jones Library (temp location).

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