Encompassing 53.13 acres of predominantly open pastureland with approximately 200 feet of frontage on Highland Lake and 2150 feet of frontage along Maple Street, the Property provides the general public with spectacular views of Highland Lake to the east and of Mt. Kearsarge to the west. It has been identified by the Town of Andover on a "Sensitive Natural Areas" map as a property having special characteristics to be preserved.Read more

(The following was written 12/06 by easement donors Cynthia Hayes and her husband John Trachy.) Our Lake Sunapee area has many unique and special places that offer solitude, reflection, recreation and stimulation. Some we have driven by countless times, others remain hidden and await discovery. Perhaps Robert Frost grasped something fundamental as he wrote of the roads less traveled - something that we need to be a content person.Read more

For the better part of the past century, Jerry Hersey, his parents, or his grandparents have been farming the side of a small green valley at the foot of Chase Hill in Andover. Even today, trucks rumbling along Route 11 barely interrupt lush green pastures that spread down the hill toward the woods shading Sucker Brook.Read more

The 69.2 acre Hiller conservation easement is adjacent to the already protected Hersey Family Farm and the Roger Hersey Farm – conserving over 325 contiguous acres on Route 11 and the Rail Trail in Andover. The Hiller land includes woodland with two small open fields on the east side of Valley Road and prime wetlands (as designated by the Town of Andover), which are located west of Valley Road along the northern boundary. Sucker Brook and several tributaries run through this easement with an old mill site on Sucker Brook, south of the house.Read more

The Thad and Virginia Johnson conservation easement on 92 acres in Sutton Mills is the 95th property conserved by Ausbon Sargent. The Johnson easement can be seen from Route 114 north of the turn to the Highway Garage in Sutton Mills. Their conservation easement protects 92 acres of woodlands with frontage on three public roads. This is a gateway property for both Sutton Mills and the region at large. The property borders the west side of Route 114, the north side of Village Road, and the east side of scenic Corporation Hill Road.Read more

Sunapee’s Wendell Marsh and the Sugar River have received an important measure of protection through a conservation easement donation by Dr. Jolyon Johnson. The Sunapee veterinarian donated the development rights to two parcels totaling 34.1 acres with 2,102 feet of road frontage along Route 11.

The forested land is located opposite the Sunapee water treatment facility. It contains several seasonal springs that flow underneath the roadway into the Sugar River, just below the marsh. The property features a network of trails, and pedestrian, non-motorized access will be permitted.Read more

Ausbon Sargent was given this property by William F. Kidder in 1988. As a condition of the state funded LCIP project to protect Spring Ledge Farm, it was then conveyed to the owners of Spring Ledge Farm subject to restrictions. The purpose of the restrictions are to maintain the property in perpetuity as open space for conservation and agricultural purposes and to protect the scenic and rural quality of the property. Spring Ledge Farm uses this small lot, which is visible to the public from Main Street, to grow farm crops.Read more

To meet all the matching dollar requirements of the New Hampshire Land and Community  Investment Program (LCIP) to purchase the Spring Ledge Farm easement, longtime New London residents William F. Kidder and James C. Cleveland donated the value of their conservation easements on 16.2 acres of their land on Pleasant Street. For 25 years, the Town of New London held the easement, with Ausbon Sargent as the backup grantee.Read more

In 1948, Judith Le Baron Brewer’s parents purchased 200 acres along Waukeena Lake and used it as a summer retreat for the family. Judith’s parents transferred the property to Judith and her husband, Tom, a geologist, in 1981. Today they live there full time, paddling, gardening, raising chickens, cutting firewood and searching the woods for artifacts from times gone by. They’ve invited foresters, wildlife biologists and soil specialists to help them manage the land, knowing that someday the Brewer children will inherit the property.
Read more