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Millers Pond State Park

{{Short description|State park in Connecticut, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{for-multi|the park in Croydon|Millers Pond|the nature reserve in Southampton|Miller's Pond}}

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| name = Millers Pond State Park

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State Park

| location = Durham and Haddam, Connecticut, United States

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| coordinates = {{coord|41|28|35|N|72|38|00|W|display=inline,title}}

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| area = {{convert|280|acre|abbr=on}}

| elevation = {{convert|564|ft|m|abbr=on}}{{cite gnis|208934|Millers Pond}}

| established = 1955

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| designation = Connecticut state park

| administrator = Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

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Millers Pond State Park is a public recreation area lying adjacent to Cockaponset State Forest in the towns of Durham and Haddam, Connecticut. The park's central feature is {{convert|33|acre|adj=on}} Millers Pond, whose principal source of water is large springs that create a body of unpolluted water excellent for trout and smallmouth bass. The park offers fishing, hiking, mountain biking, and hunting.

History

Thomas Miller erected the upper dam in 1704 to make a reservoir to serve his downstream gristmill. Millers Pond and 170 acres of woodlands were acquired by the state in 1955 from the heirs of Thomas Macdonough Russell. The acquisition was one of several made in the 1950s using funds bequeathed by George Dudley Seymour.{{efn-ua |The Seymour bequest contributed to the creation of Beaver Brook State Park, Becket Hill State Park Reserve, Bigelow Hollow State Park, Hurd State Park, Millers Pond State Park, Platt Hill State Park, George Dudley Seymour State Park, Stoddard Hill State Park, and Nathan Hale State Forest.}} The state's purchase of additional land around the pond was completed in 1972.

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References

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{{cite web |url=https://ctparks.com/parks/millers-pond-state-park |title=Millers Pond State Park |publisher=Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection |access-date=August 21, 2024}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2716&q=325240 |title=Millers Pond State Park |publisher=Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection |access-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231706/http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2716&q=325240 |archive-date=March 3, 2016}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2716&q=446328 |title=George Dudley Seymour State Park |publisher=Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection |date=July 18, 2016 |access-date=August 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330010309/http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2716&q=446328 |archive-date=March 30, 2018}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.cga.ct.gov/pri/docs/2013/State%20Parks%20and%20Forests%20Funding%20Staff%20Findings%20and%20Recommendations%20.pdf |title=Appendix A: List of State Parks and Forests |work=State Parks and Forests: Funding |series=Staff Findings and Recommendations |publisher=Connecticut General Assembly |date=January 23, 2014 |page=A-2 |access-date=March 20, 2014}}

{{cite web|url=http://cteco.uconn.edu/maps/lake/bathymetry/Bathymetry_Millers_Pond.pdf |title=Millers Pond |publisher=Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection |date=September 2011 |access-date=September 13, 2017}}

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External links

  • [https://ctparks.com/parks/millers-pond-state-park Millers Pond State Park] Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
  • [https://ctparks.com/media/550/download?inline Millers Pond State Park Map] Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

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Category:State parks of Connecticut

Category:Parks in Middlesex County, Connecticut

Category:Ponds of Connecticut

Category:Bodies of water of Middlesex County, Connecticut

Category:Protected areas established in 1955

Category:1955 establishments in Connecticut

Category:Durham, Connecticut

Category:Haddam, Connecticut