This land features flowing streams, stone walls, trees reaching 50 to 100 feet into the sky, a pond and life of all kinds everywhere.

Ice Cream Social, Legos and the One Room Schoolhouse – June 15th, 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Join volunteers from the Burrillville Land Trust and Rhode Island Lego Artist Andrew Grover as we unveil the Legos version of the One Room Schoolhouse on Eagle Peak Road. Ice Cream truck Mumsies provides the ice cream in dairy and vegan options. The One Room Schoolhouse Lego project is funded by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and funds from the Burrillville Land Trust. Tours of the grounds and the life size stone schoolhouse will be available. Learn how a conservation program saved this building and this land from being demolished and changed forever.

Donations are accepted that will benefit the work of the volunteers of the Burrillville Land Trust.

The property at 310 Eagle Peak Road reminds me of why I joined the Burrillville Land Trust many years go: flowing streams, stone walls, trees reaching 50 to 100 feet into the sky, a pond and life of all kinds everywhere. The forest and wetlands contained within 310 Eagle Peak Road is also the home to a time when resource extraction built a nation and region, and helped spur economic growth. People worked these lands. Mined granite for buildings and steps. Cut timber for houses and barns. Harvested chestnuts and grew crops. They also raised sheep, chickens and cows. And they went to school. The one room schoolhouse on the property is emblematic of the New England renaissance bringing public education to local communities. This neighborhood learning became an opportunity to teach a younger generation about the greater world. These are just some of the conservation values of 310 Eagle Peak Road. This property has value by its very existence. As this schoolhouse helped educate a community, the land trust will help teach all who continue to live on this land. Teaching new owners of the natural world and the values in their own backyard.

The mission of the Burrillville Land Trust is to preserve and protect the rural character of the Town of Burrillville through acquisition, education and advocacy. All three of these noble goals are part of the reason the land trust has accepted a Conservation Easement on 310 Eagle Peak Road and the reason that we value this property. A conservation easement is no small matter. Future property owners of 310 Eagle Peak Road must adhere to the confines of this restrictive covenant. In these pages within the conservation easement there is strength, opportunity and the promise of a future for all that live on this land. The Burrillville Land Trust becomes a trusted partner in the health and growth of all that is natural on this land. The land trust also becomes a defacto advocate, a voice, for the land, speaking when necessary to help preserve and protect the rural nature, the character, that this property represents. The stone one-room schoolhouse, the sugar maple outside that schoolhouse door, the stone walls must have witnessed hundreds of school age children and parents going from and to the fields to work, to play and to live. Life thrived here.

The land trust will strive to meet the needs of the Conservation Easement, protect the values that are there and help each owner to make sure life continues to flourish on this land. That is our hope.