High Rock Tower Reservation

The High Rock Tower Reservation is a city park of Lynn, Massachusetts. The roughly 4.5acre park encompasses the summit area of a hill with commanding views of the surrounding area, as well as the Atlantic Ocean which is only a half a mile away. The park's principal attraction is the High Rock Tower, a stone structure measuring 85 feet high, built in 1905, replacing an earlier tower built by Jesse Hutchinson of the Hutchinson Family Singers, a politically-active abolitionist singing group that performed throughout the northern United States from the 1840s to about 1880. The Jesse Hutchinson acquired the property from the Pawtucket natives, and by 1846 built two Gothic Revival cottages and later other cottages as well as the first tower which burnt down during a celebration of the Civil War's end. http://myweb.northshore.edu/users/ccarlsen/poetry/lynn/highrockhistory.html The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.The City of Lynn has periodically opened the tower and observatory to the public for free use of the telescope. This practice continues in summer 2017, with seven scheduled evenings from May to August.