Haggetts Pond facts for kids
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View of the pond in winter
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 Haggetts Pond
Location in Massachusetts
Haggetts Pond
Location in the United States
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| Location | Andover, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates | 42°38′36″N 71°12′18″W / 42.64333°N 71.20500°W |
| Lake type | reservoir |
| Basin countries | United States |
Haggetts Pond is the reservoir for the town of Andover, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the western part of the town and also lends its name to a road. The Merrimack River is connected to the pond to add volume to the reservoir. In the 1600s it was known as “Five Mile Pond” by the early settlers, and is referenced in several Witch trial confessions as being the place newly claimed witches were “baptized”.
It is bordered by Route 133 on the south. Not far to the northwest is Interstate 495; to the northeast is Interstate 93. Haggetts Pond is located at 42°38′36″N 71°12′18″W / 42.64333°N 71.20500°W.
Permissible activities include walking, hiking, jogging biking and fishing. Only registered rowboats are allowed on the reservoir and fishing must be done from either the shoreline or a rowboat (no hip waders). Canoeing or kayaking, windsurfing, sailing, ice skating and ice fishing are prohibited. Swimming, bathing, wading and pets in the water are also prohibited.
Hiking trails, some converted out of a former railway (the Lowell and Lawrence Railroad), encircle the pond.
The Pond also gives its name to a road (Haggetts Pond Road) that starts to the west of the pond itself. Haggetts Pond Road transverses Route 133, but the vast majority of its length is on the side north of the pond. (Of the 245 houses on Haggetts Pond Road, 240 of them are on the north side.)
