Oakledge

Oakledge Park Our site is located on Lake Champlain. We started investigating the area on Monday and we took a tour of the entire park. We discovered many surprising historical artifacts like chimneys in the woods.

Hard at Work

What We Discovered

Then and Now

Oakledge manor was a beautiful house located where one of the pavilions now sit. The manor was turned into a resort by Allen S. Beach. The city of Burlington bought the property in 1971, and the fire dept burned the house down twenty-five days later. Photo courtesy of Shelburne Farms Collection

The chimneys found in the woods are remains of the bungalows. There were eight of them. We were only able to find seven.

% loss of greenspace (1932 to 1999) 330% increase in pavement and buildings These maps show that pavement and buildings have replaced grass and forests in the Oakledge area drainage basin. On the maps, dark green represents trees, light green is fields, brown is roads, red is buildings, blue is water, and yellow is beach 1660% more runoff from packed dirt than from grass Oakledge From the Air Water is absorbed by soil and vegetation, but runs off roads and buildings. Also, runoff from thick grass was clean, while runoff from the parking area was contaminated.

Monkton Quartzite was formed half a billion years ago. The sand it was created from was sand of the tropical Iapetus Ocean. The park was changed dramatically in the past hundred years, while these rocks have remained unchanged.

Leaders: Paul Bierman Helen Overeynder Claire Dacey Team O: Tim Sparano, Pete Foote Anne Perry Daniels, Sarah Van Dyke Eric LaMontagne, Zac Harwood Tyler Kieft, Chris Persico Maia Hansen, Kerry Leonard Nicole Underhill, Melissa Perry, Greg Foley