Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is pleased to announce that, on August 11, 2022, it purchased a three-acre property on Chappaquiddick in partnership with the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission. The seller was David Ames, Jr., and the purchase price was $677,625. Of this amount, Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation paid $291,625 for a 43% interest in the property, and the Land Bank paid $386,000 for a 57% interest in the property.
The conserved land will host the last, critical link in the long-planned cross-Chappy trail. By connecting to other conserved lands, the newly-conserved property will connect the Slater Preserve to the west, with the Land Bank’s Three Ponds Reservation to the west. One will now be able to walk on a trail from the Slater Preserve all the way to Wasque Point.
The new property directly abuts some 20 acres of land that David Ames and his family have donated to Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation over a period of decades. The Foundation expresses its sincere gratitude to David and his family for their conservation vision.
Conserving this land was made possible by the generosity of donors and partners. Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation gives a very special thanks to the Chappaquiddick Open Space Committee and its chair, Rev. Cynthia Hubbard, to Jonathan Cobb for initiating this acquisition, and to all those who donated to this property purchase. We thank our partner, the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission, for a second successful partnership acquisition. And we thank Katherine Donahue of Sandpiper Realty for bringing this purchase to our attention in 2021.
We anticipate opening a new trail on this property to public use at some point in 2022, following the approval of a property management plan.