What is Being Threatened?

The Red Brook residential development in Plymouth belongs to A.D. Makepeace Cranberry Co. of Wareham-the state’s largest landowner. Under the name of ADM Agawam Development LLC, the company has devastated hundreds of acres of forests and wetlands for the Red Brook development since 2017. Makepeace also operates Read Custom Soils in Carver, a large aggregate mining operation. It sources sand and gravel from its lands, including the Red Brook residential development in Plymouth.

Makepeace plans to expand Red Brook around Deer Pond, an endangered species habitat and known archeological site. It plans a major road and more densely packed housing. This requires clear-cutting forests, destroying wetlands, and losing wildlife habitat.

Why it Matters

Deer Pond is Priority Habitat for Protected Species. The Deer Pond expansion will obliterate at least 25 acres of forest around the Pond.

Also, artifacts show Native American Wampanoag human use and occupation of the Pond area back to 5,000 years ago, the Late Archaic Period. The Wampanoag have a connection to the land, both spiritually and physically. Their ancestral home is being razed by a private developer, not only obliterating their historic connection to the land but also threatening their present-day survival on the land, in a continuance of the crimes of colonial occupation.

Take Action!

Write a letter to Save Deer Pond from Makepeace’s reckless development.