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Unique-Public-8594 t1_ix7qcx4 wrote

Which college?

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Nervous_Month_381 OP t1_ix7u4jz wrote

UMass Lowell. I'm pretty sure this was something I first visited in school, but there's a possibility it could have been in boy scouts

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_ix7ujg0 wrote

The longest river tubing in Massachusetts is in Deerfield, MA but that wouldn’t be close enough to the ocean to become brackish.

Plus, you call it a stream but this is more of a river.

Here are some pictures though, look familiar?

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/massachusetts/longest-float-trip-ma/

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Nervous_Month_381 OP t1_ix80mos wrote

Naw, this is still good though, I'd love to check this out later on. It was a stream, pretty narrow, it went from a normal stream to an irrigation ditch about 3-4 feet wide. I didn't use a tube, just kind of swam and floated along the stream all day and walked like 6 miles through the woods back to my car. We didn't do that for the trip, we just kind of toured the site. It was when I came back that I decided to swim along it for the hell of it, I don't think it's something folks typically do as a tourist site. It was me just kind of doing my own thing, but I remember there was a pretty strong but not too fast current, it went from a rocky steam bed near the historical site to like a soft clay when it became an irrigation ditch. I'm betting there are probably a number of places similar to this all over mass, so my hope in finding this place again is kinda slim. Thank you!

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_ix80wx2 wrote

Sounds amazing and how nice that it was uncrowded.

I’d want to rediscover it as well.

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_ix81jkz wrote

This page has a drop down menu of historic homes. It would take a while and be tedious but you could check google maps for each one for location on a stream/beach. Kind of depends how determined you are.

https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/boardman-house/

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Nervous_Month_381 OP t1_ix8revc wrote

Awesome! Thank you. I'll dig around tonight and on my lunch break later

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