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Politics & Government

Three Acres Preserved in Bridgehampton

Parcel will help connect the Paumonok Trail and provide access to Whiskey Hill.

“It’s a geology lesson on a hill,” said Dan Shedrick at Aug. 23’s Southampton Town Board meeting. He was talking about three acres of land in Bridgehampton that the board had just voted to preserve using $940,000 from the Community Preservation Fund.

The parcel is part of a block of land between Brick Kiln Road and Lopers Path in May.

The piece of land to be purchased is owned by And So It Goes, LLC, whose principal, Shedrick, was at the board meeting to witness the vote.

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The land will now be incorporated into an existing trail that Gloria Berk, the president of the , hopes will one day stretch, uninterrupted, from Rocky Point to Montauk.

Shedrick, himself, walks on the parcel, which is just next to , a vantage 218 feet above sea level, from which one can see from Mecox Bay to the Atlantic.

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“The ocean is sparkling is in the distance,” he said of the viewshed. “When I get there I know that I’m alive; it’s a pretty precious point.”

The property is also in a targeted preservation area known as the Great Swamp that, according to the legislation, “is perhaps one of the finest collections of inland freshwater wetlands remaining east of the Shinnecock Canal.”

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