10/17/2024 HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes

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x ,w ,@ l "' i' 16 Great Neck load North C 2 Mash ee}Telephone .. (5� 5) 15,39-1 3 MASHPEE HISTORICAL COMISSION Minutes of Meeting —October 17, 2024 Mashpee Historical Commission meeting was called to order by Ava at 4:13 pm. CommissionersPresent: Ava Costello, Richard DeSorgher, Brian Hyde, Lenny Pockneft, and Nancyo erer . Rosemary Burns Love and Joan Tavares-Avant were not available. AndrewMcManus, Conservation Commissioner, Gail Hendricks-Hill, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, and J. Marie Stevenson, Mashpee Inclusion and Diversity CommitteeI attended. Gail Hendricks-Hill informed us of aday-long seminar called Garden of Memories, which of e held at the Tribal Headquarters on October 26t" demonstrating archival services s , Boston has to offer to scan materials which members of the tribe will be bringingin. She mentionedthat some of the UMass scanning equipment col be broughtinto the Town Archives so that the tribe would be able to scan materials o site. Richardmotion that we share our Archival materials with the Tribe, with the understandingthat they would be willing to reciprocate. The motion was seconded by Lenny Pockneft, n voted unanimously. Drew McManusinformed us that he was here to talk about the details re the Chop Chaque Bog arear which they received Army Corps funds to restore the bog back o wetlands. r since the project began they have been planning to keep the sortie barn. They have decided to destroy the pump house, and that has been approved. They ill be workingwith Horsley & Witten which provides engineering and environ- mental management services. They will be using another company who will bring in the 6quipment to movesand, peat, and other soil materials. Some of it will be used t backfill the burrowits for the nesting habitat of the box turtles, and they will do this work during timesn the turtles are not nesting. The committee has worked hard preventi the sorting barn, but the barn is in a rather remote area andthe possibilityof morevandalism still exists. The bog pump house is slated to be demolished removed. discussed how returning the area tonatural el n s shouldI improve the water quality of Santuit Pond. Brian Hyde commented that the Town owns the buildings, but The Native Land Conservancy has a conservation restriction on the property. Ava stated that she is hoping to move the barn to the previous site of the Attaquin Hotel. She would like to work on creating museum r Welcome/informationcenter with the building. Andrewi t he felt that the Conservation Commission would be in favor of relocating the bar o an areaher it could be more protected and used for historic