Our Land. Your Impact.
Help Protect the Land We Call Home
Our community is defined by the forests, meadows, and waterways that surround us. Your support preserves the places that make Tewksbury special, from the wildlife habitats that sustain our region to the historic landmarks that root us in our shared story.
Your generosity ensures these landscapes remain connected, resilient, and protected for generations to come.
Restore. Preserve. Connect.
Honoring Our History
For more than a century, the Hollow Brook Bridge has remained remarkably intact, carrying generations across one of Tewksbury’s most peaceful waterways. Time, weather, and age have taken their toll, and this historic landmark now needs careful preservation.
This year we advanced its protection and set the foundation for its long-term restoration. The bridge represents our community’s story and the responsibility we carry to safeguard the places that connect us to our past.
Your support helps ensure this work continues with care and respect for the landscape.
Preserving the Land We Love
This past year we worked to protect the Matarazzo Preserve, a 26-acre property in the heart of Tewksbury's conserved open space. The land includes mature oak forest, pine stands, a clean tributary of the Rockaway Creek, meadow edges, and key wildlife corridors.
Conserving this property ensures the landscape remains whole. It strengthens a continuous greenway that links the Christmas Tree Farm area to the larger network of conserved lands leading toward Christie Hoffman Farm Park. Its location within the Fairmount Historic District adds cultural significance to its natural value.
Your support helps us steward this land, plan future trails, strengthen habitat connectivity, and ensure long-term conservation.
Protecting What Comes Next
Looking ahead, our work continues with clear purpose.
The work ahead is rooted in stewardship and long-term care.
In the coming year, we will continue restoring native habitat, protecting waterways, improving trail systems, and strengthening wildlife corridors across the township.
Your gift supports this work.
Our Vision for the Year Ahead
This time of year always brings to mind all we have to be grateful for. For us at the Tewksbury Land Trust, it is you, those who support our mission to preserve, protect and steward this land. This year’s project to rehabilitate the 1880s stone arch bridge that crosses the Hollow Brook raised $25,000 from donors like you. Our nomination to list the bridge on the State and National Registers of Historic Places is moving through the state Historic Preservation Office, and we expect it to be approved in March of 2026.
The TLT has had an eventful year. We are closing on a spectacular 25-acre wooded farmland that will be known as the Matarazzo Preserve, named for owner and long-time supporter Jim Matarazzo. Once signage and an access trail are in place, our website will host details on where to park and how to enjoy this property. Please sign up online to stay informed and follow us on social media.
We are also in negotiation with two other landowners to preserve three separate parcels. Should all go according to plan, these offer the potential to add another 120 acres of preserved open space in Tewksbury. Virtually all the land you help us to protect is open to the public for your enjoyment.
Our initiatives to engage the local community have led to multiple collaborations with the Tewksbury Parks Committee, including a recent “Protect Our Pollinators” stewardship event. With each parcel we preserve, it is up to us, as a community, to keep it beautiful and accessible. For this, we rely on you, our neighbors and friends, to support us in any way you can, whether with a pitchfork or a pen! We hope to see you at our next event this Spring and wish you and yours a splendid Holiday Season.
Gia-Raquel Esposito, President
