DCHP-3

beaver meadow

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a meadow, often swampy, lying behind an old beaver dam and prized by early settlers for its fertility.

Quotations

1824
The situation of the town is very unhealthy, for it stands on a piece of low marshy land, which is better calculated for a frog-pond or beaver meadow than for a residence of human beings.
1964
About 30 miles west of Puntzi Lake they encountered a gang of men cutting hay on a large swamp or beaver meadow. . . .