JOIN US at Chester on Track 2025 on MAY 17th we will have our tents set up on Main Street in Chester with NEW shirts, hats, flyers, free handouts and hike flyers, maps and so much more even our very popular goodie basket raffle. Come meet the Directors of the Hilltown Hikers (who are YOUR hike leaders!) ask questions, give feedback…WE WILL ALSO have our camping event info, paddleboards, snowshoes all kinds of gear for you all to check out, part of our new for 2025 EDUCATIONAL SERIES…—->AND! we have Tom, Frank and Greg giving Tours all day at our Chester Granite Saw Property just down the street across from the Chester Railway Station! SEE US IN THE PARADE AT 10AM!
ON MAY 17th during Chester On Track we will be giving guided tours from 9am to 5pm at the one and only Chester Granite Saw and Finishing Works!
The Chester Granite Saw is a stone cutting and finishing plant established in 1870 in Historic Chester Factory Village. It was purchased by the current President of the Western Mass Hilltown Hikers September 2023 and donated to that non-profit to conserve and historically preserve the entire mill operation. It is open to the public dawn to dusk every day with a walking path that passes by the old buildings, machinery and the ten foot diameter shot saw structure which is still standing today. The Hilltown Hikers and it’s volunteers are cleaning up this property after eighty years of abandonment by cutting back invasive species, dead ash trees, fallen trees and 8 to 12 inches of sediment that has covered its floors. This project is one of a kind in Western Mass as the first stone finishing plant in the area where granite and marble was brought to Chester to be cut and finished for monuments, historical buildings and more throughout the country by rail on it’s own Boston and Albany siding which visitors can see today. Be a part of this historic project to be enjoyed by generations to come by donating or volunteering on www.hilltownhikers.com
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