Looking west from Center Road in 1957 ? a view of the Nathan Mott Park just 15 years after the park was created in 1942. In 1961, 13 acres of the land in the foreground were taken by the state for the erection of approach lights, adding to the 21 acres they took in 1949. In the distance on the right, the beginnings of the Enchanted Forest can be seen as a long, low rectangle on the ridge top. The stone wall in the right foreground ? with two large, obelisk-like boulders that form a grand entranceway ? once led to the ancient homestead of the Rathbun family, from whom all the Rathbuns, Rathbones, and Rathburns in the country are descended. The stone wall, which is now overgrown with brush, is on land the state took.