A Place for Peace, and a Piece of History

If you are looking for a place to relax and get some quiet time, there is a place for you in Edgemont, just off Central Avenue at Dromore Road.

The Greenburgh Nature Center is a natural preserve with trails, ponds and gardens. The center provides a place to have interactive and educational experiences about advances in environmental literacy. They offer a host of activities that you can find on their website.

 http://greenburghnaturecenter.org/

 If you are just interested in just taking in the beauty of the thirty three acres, you can hike the many trails or just find a spot under one of the great trees and read a book.

Now for the history. You wouldn't know it by walking around the Nature Center, but there used to be a quarry on the land between the Nature Center and Edgemont High School. By the way, the Nature Center is just behind the school's tennis courts and gymnasium. 

The quarry supplied the stone that was used to pave Central Avenue back in 1906. Stone from the quarry was also shipped to New York, where it was used on the retaining walls along the Metro North tracks in the Bronx.