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Onion Town Field Day - June 21, 2025
It's official! Onion Town Field Day will be returning to the park... this time in JUNE! Mark your calendars for some early summer, quality family time, featuring food trucks, beer & seltzers, hay rides, pony rides, old fashioned games, music, and more!
This event is FREE, and open to everyone!
More details to come!
Click here for details.
Become a member of The Friends of Endicott Park and support our continued efforts to support the park! Your membership will be valid through MARCH 31, 2026!
Memberships help support the needs of the park, including feeding the animals, assisting with veterinary costs, and facilities enhancements. Below is a recap of 2024 and plans for 2025.
2024 Year in Review - Thanks to your generosity, we were able to:
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Plant and install eight new trees
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Contribute $25,000 to complete the Outdoor Nature Education Center
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Fund a new flagpole and flag for main lawn
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Welcome two new animals to the park family — Maple the donkey and Milo the horse
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Fund the renovations and restoration of the historic Corn Crib Barn
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Provide essential veterinary care to keep all of our animals healthy
Looking Ahead To 2025 - With your continued support, we're excited to:
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Renovations and restorations to the historic Corn Crib Barn (completed, see below!)
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Begin renovation and restoration work to the historic Carriage House entrance
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Support and sponsor Onion Town Field (a family-friendly community event in June)
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Plant and install four new trees
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Add new interactive exhibits to the Nature Center
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Acquire and decorate an antique sleigh for the holiday season
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Continue funding veterinary and farrier care for our animals
Your membership truly matters. Be part of our mission. We can’t do it without you.
Exciting Plans for 2025! What’s Next?
Support the Preservation of The Carriage House at Endicott Park
With its rich history, stunning natural beauty, and diverse recreational offerings, Endicott Park has become an essential part of the town’s identity. The Carriage House, located in the heart of Endicott Park, serves as both a cultural and historical landmark on the North Shore of Massachusetts is the park’s central hub, offering visitors vital information and access to the park’s educational and recreational programs. Though the building has been carefully preserved to retain its historic charm, it also provides modern amenities to ensure a comfortable, welcoming experience for all visitors.
Despite the Town’s ongoing investment and efforts to maintain the property, The Carriage House requires extensive repairs to preserve its structural integrity, improve energy efficiency, and enhance accessibility for individuals with disabilities. These repairs are crucial to ensuring that future generations can continue to enjoy this beautiful and historically significant building.
Proposed Work on Main Entryway Doors and Façade
To maintain the Carriage House’s historical integrity and improve its functionality, the following work is planned for the main entryway doors and façade:
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Main Entryway Doors: The doors will be replaced or restored, with necessary repairs to the wooden structure and hardware. Energy-efficient upgrades will be implemented, including weatherstripping to reduce drafts and improve insulation.
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Façade Repairs and Restoration: The exterior siding, and trim will be carefully repaired or replaced to preserve the Carriage House’s historic appearance. This includes restoring clapboards and replacing damaged areas, while ensuring the façade is fully protected from the elements.
These improvements will not only enhance the aesthetic appeal of the building but also ensure it remains safe, accessible, and energy-efficient for all visitors.
Help Restore Endicott Park’s Tree Canopy
Endicott Park is home to a beautiful and diverse landscape, with trees that provide shade, beauty, and habitat for wildlife. Unfortunately, our once abundant Ash trees have been heavily impacted by the Emerald Ash Borer infestation, causing widespread damage and the loss of many of these majestic trees. As a result, they must be removed to protect the health of the park’s ecosystem.
The Friends of Endicott Park are committed to restoring our tree canopy, and we’re working to replace these lost Ash trees by planting new trees each year. Your generous donation will help fund the purchase and planting of new trees, ensuring the continued vitality and beauty of the park for generations to come.
Join us in making a lasting impact. Your support will help replant what has been lost and preserve the park’s natural splendor for future visitors.
Projects Recently Completed
Preserving History, Thanks to You!
We’re proud to share that the renovation of the historic Corn Crib at Endicott Park has been completed — and it wouldn’t have been possible without your generous support.
Originally built as a one-and-a-half-story timber frame structure used for drying and storing corn, the Corn Crib stands as a rare surviving piece of the gentleman’s farm that once thrived on these grounds. Elevated on cinder-block columns to protect its contents from animals, the building reflects the thoughtful design and function of agricultural life at Glen Magna.
Thanks to your donations, we were able to restore this important structure by replacing the roof, doors, windows, corner boards, and siding. The Corn Crib now serves a vital role in the daily operations of the park — repurposed for hay storage to help care for the animals that so many of our visitors know and love.
Your generosity has not only preserved a valuable piece of our history — it has made a lasting impact on the future of Endicott Park.
Thank you for being an essential part of this meaningful project.
Projects In Consideration
Wetlands Walk at Endicott Park
Few outdoor experiences offer a deeper connection to nature than a wetlands walk, where the wonders of wildlife and the beauty of fragile ecosystems unfold before your eyes. The Friends of Endicott Park, Inc. are excited to propose the creation of a Wetlands Walk — a self-guided, immersive experience that will invite visitors to explore one of the park’s most ecologically sensitive and captivating areas.
The proposed Wetlands Walk will be a short, accessible stroll along a wooden, pile-supported walkway, offering visitors a close-up view of the vibrant plant life and diverse animal habitats in the park’s wetlands. As you wander along the elevated path, you’ll encounter a rich variety of species, from beavers and turtles to frogs, snakes, and even occasional sightings of deer, eagles, and hawks.
This project aims to enhance the current wildlife viewing platform at the end of our Rhododendron Trail, expanding it into a raised wooden walkway that will provide both a safe vantage point and an unobtrusive way for visitors to interact with this sensitive natural area.
We invite you to support this exciting new addition to Endicott Park through a membership or donation. Together, we can create a space where visitors can learn, explore, and appreciate the beauty and significance of the park’s wetlands while preserving this vital natural resource for future generations.
Your support will help make this vision a reality.
Past Large Scale Renovation Projects
Education Garden
This project was made possible thanks to a generous grant from Cell Signaling Technologies Inc., and matching funds from the Friends of Endicott Park. Thanks also go out to Corliss Landscape and Irrigation for donating their design services for this project! This garden has been a dream of the park rangers for a long time, and they are so excited to be able to finally share it with community. The Education Garden will be a shared space that will be open for visitors to enjoy year round, as well a space for hosting science and nature programs.
This garden was designed to help the community learn about and experience land stewardship and sustainable growing practices, and thanks to its ADA accessible pathways, it is accessible to ALL visitors of Endicott Park for learning, relaxing, and engaging in park-sponsored programs. As you explore, you can observe a variety of native species, pollinator friendly plantings, climate-resilient and drought resistant plants, and an array of sustainability strategies such as composting and water conservation. The Education Garden features: several inviting seating areas, a Rain Garden (with water loving plants that absorb run off from the roof), a Sensory Garden (with plants to entice the senses), a Pollinator Garden, a Vegetable Garden, and our Outdoor Classroom.
The Education Garden will be open to the public tomorrow (Wednesday 6/19), though there will be an official grand opening in the coming weeks to thank the generous donors who helped to make this dream a reality!! Stay tuned for details.
HELP SUPPORT FUTURE PROJECTS LIKE THIS AT THE PARK BY BECOMING A MEMBER TODAY!
Fitness Trail Renovations - Fall 2023
The Endicott Park Natural Resources team completed the installation of 13 brand-new fitness stations along the 1.8 mile fitness trail within Endicott Park! The new fitness stations focused on cardio, endurance, core, and balance. Each station was backfilled with playground style wood chips, and replaced bridges that traversed low lying areas. The project was funded in-part with a $20k donation from the Friends of Endicott Park, Inc.
In 2022, renovations were completed to the Townley Family Children’s Barn including new windows, floor, siding, and doors all which helped improve the conditions for both animals and the rangers who care for them. The windows can now be opened to help with ventilation and fresh air for the animals. A hot water heater was installed so the rangers no longer have to haul hot water from the carriage house in the winter months.
Additionally, a new stamped concrete floor was installed, as well as updates to the chicken coops, the animal stalls, the ramp to the side yard, and a new handicap accessible viewing platform. All of the work performed was kept as historically accurate as possible to try to maintain the beautiful historical architecture of the barn.
In 2018, the Town of Danvers celebrated the grand opening of the Endicott Park Nature Center. The Nature Center was made possible by The Friends of Endicott Park, Inc., a recognized 501c3 charitable organization established in 1995 with a mission to support the preservation, conservation and enhancement of this natural, educational and historic resource.
Endicott Park Children's Book!
Endicott Park’s own Park Rangers Ryan Duggan and Nicki Pszenny worked together to write and illustrate a Children’s Book about Endicott Park for all the kids who know and love it. Books are $20 each. All proceeds will benefit the Friends of Endicott Park, a 501c3 charitable organization.
Two options for purchase:
1.) In person at the Nature Center every Sunday from 10am to 1pm. Please bring cash (exact change please) or check payable to the Friends of Endicott Park ($20/book).
2.) Purchase online and have the book shipped. Click here to purchase online.
Planting a tree in honor or in memory of the people we love, or to recognize those who positively influence our lives, is a centuries-old tradition. The Town of Danvers and Friends of Endicott Park, Inc. is proud to offer the opportunity to create these living tributes.
Click here for all the information.
Friends of Endicott Park Remembrance Tree Program
“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”
Charles Dickens