Horn Pond (Massachusetts)
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Horn Pond is a water body along the
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in
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in the
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. The pond is fed by several brooks and flows out via Horn Pond Brook to the Aberjona River and the
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, eventually reaching the
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and the Atlantic Ocean. It was also traversed by the
Middlesex Canal The Middlesex Canal was a 27-mile (44-kilometer) barge canal connecting the Merrimack River with the port of Boston. When operational it was 30 feet (9.1 m) wide, and 3 feet (0.9 m) deep, with 20 locks, each 80 feet (24 m) long and between 10 and ...
from 1802 to 1860. Yellow perch were the most common species recorded at Horn Pond in a 1982 survey, with additional species, including: largemouth bass, pumpkinseed, bluegill, killifish, chain pickerel, golden shiner, carp, white sucker, brook trout, yellow bullhead, brown bullhead and black crappie. Trout (primarily rainbows, but also browns and brookies) have been stocked in the past, with more fish and trout in the fall.


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Woburn Conservation CommissionMiddlesex Canal AssociationWoburn Residents' Environmental Network
Lakes of Middlesex County, Massachusetts Massachusetts natural resources Woburn, Massachusetts Ponds of Massachusetts {{MiddlesexCountyMA-geo-stub