Doeskin Hill
Doeskin Hill rises to 152 m in Massachusetts. Nobscot Hill stands 183 m to the east, 0.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Brimstone Estates, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 9.6 miles off.
The story
Doeskin Hill (also known as Doe Skin or Doescine or Doesiene Hill) is a 492-foot (150 m) hill in Framingham, Massachusetts. The hill is located west of Nobscot Hill near the border with Sudbury, Massachusetts. The hill is mentioned in the Massachusetts colonial records by at least 1658, and the name Doeskin (from the skin of a doe deer) originated as documented in the following testimony below:
"Hopestill Brown, Esq., of lawful age testifyeth and saith that for this sixty years he hath known the great hill adjoining to Sudbury south boundary to go by the name of Nobscot or Doeskin hill: that some of the improvement with some of the orchard in the possession of Joseph Berry in Framingham is on the westerly part of said hill: The deponent further saith that he heard his father say that Mr. Pelham and himself went up the hill above mentioned to take a prospect, and that Mr. Pelham lost a Doeskin glove on said hill, and that Mr. Pelham said, this hill shall be called Doeskin hill. Sworn to December 24, 1736." Some early writers applied the "designation Doeskin to the whole range [of hills], and some seeming to apply it to the eastern hill," but it was eventually resolved to only apply to the hill west of Nobscot. In 1946 it was considered as a possible site for the United Nations headquarters, along with 47 other sites in the metropolitan Boston area. By the twentieth century the area around the hill had been developed with houses and a nearby neighborhood was known as the Doeskin Hill Estates.
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Wikidata Q49025195, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 152 m
How to reach it
- 9.6 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 15.9 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 22.0 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 19 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 22 mi
- Lookout Point · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Brimstone Estates: 0.1 mi
- Wittenborg Woods: 0.3 mi
- Nobscot Reservation: 0.5 mi
- Sudbury Water District: 0.5 mi
- Chickatawbut Road: 0.8 mi
- Nobscot Hill: 0.4 mi
- Juniper Hill: 0.6 mi
- Tippling Rock: 1.0 mi
- Gibbs Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Mount Ward: 2.2 mi
- The Wayside Inn: 1.1 mi
- Rock Pile: 1.6 mi
- Carisbrooke Park: 1.8 mi
- Oakvale Park: 1.9 mi
- Frank G Feeley Park: 2.0 mi
- Redstone School: 1.2 mi
- Framingham Historical Society: 3.2 mi
- Danforth Art: 3.2 mi
- American Heritage Museum: 4.6 mi
- Danforth Art Museum\School: 4.9 mi
- Stegosaurus: 1.5 mi
- Hidden Valley: 1.5 mi
- Fireball: 1.6 mi
- Civil War Monument: 2.4 mi
- Revolutionary War Monument: 3.5 mi
- Cider Knoll Community Garden: 3.5 mi
- Southborough Town Pound: 4.7 mi
- Community Garden Southborough: 5.2 mi
- Community gardens of John J. Lane Park: 5.8 mi
- Hudson Community Garden: 6.8 mi
- Blacksmith Minuteman Statue: 3.6 mi
- Ludlow Griscom 1890-1959: 3.9 mi
- Barn Foundation: 4.0 mi
- Haynes Garrison Site: 4.1 mi
- World War II Peace Memorial: 4.3 mi
- Rice Tavern Foundation: 4.4 mi
- Mini Monster Hedge Maze: 5.3 mi
- Petting Zoo: 5.4 mi
- Big Green Monster Hedge Maze: 5.5 mi
- “The Rock” in Marlborough: 5.6 mi
- Memorial Beach: 4.3 mi
- Learned Pond Beach: 4.5 mi
- Centennial Beach: 4.5 mi
- Stow Town Beach: 4.7 mi
- Hopkinton Main Beach: 6.7 mi
- Falling Rock Ridge: 0.4 mi
- Farmers Cliff: 10.5 mi
- Bloody Bluff: 12.0 mi
- Condo Rock: 12.1 mi
- The Wall: 12.2 mi
- Picnic Site 9: 10.5 mi
- Picnic Site 8: 10.5 mi
- Picnic Site 10: 10.6 mi
- Picnic Site 6: 10.6 mi
- Picnic Site 7: 10.6 mi
- Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 17.4 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 17.6 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 19.6 mi
- Interstate 95 Rest Area: 24.9 mi
- Cascade Falls: 20.6 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 21.1 mi
- Cascades: 22.7 mi
- Emerson Falls: 24.3 mi
- Mystery Spring: 16.3 mi
- Quarry Spring: 19.0 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 22.1 mi
- Haywardville: 20.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.4 miles of Doeskin Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nobscot Hill | E 90° | 183 m | 0.4 mi |
| Sligo Hill | W 271° | 172 m | 5.8 mi |
| Pleasant Hill | W 266° | 164 m | 5.2 mi |
| Fairmount Hill | W 265° | 161 m | 4.8 mi |
| Jericho Hill | WSW 257° | 161 m | 5.6 mi |
| West Hill | W 277° | 160 m | 5.9 mi |
| Bear Hill | W 270° | 154 m | 6.3 mi |
| Gibbs Mountain | SW 234° | 153 m | 1.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:10 | 19:44 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:08 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:31 | 16:17 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Maynard 2, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 611628 — Doeskin Hill, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358272342
Day trips start here
- Framingham · 5 mi
- Marlborough · 5 mi
- MetroWest · 5 mi
- Wayland · 5 mi
- Ashland · 6 mi
- Boroughs · 6 mi
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