The Scio Township Land Preservation Program recently closed on a conservation easement purchase from the Peter Heydon Trust.
The property is just over 10 acres in size with frontage on the south side of Stein Rd. west of Maple Rd. Most of the property is wooded and features a restored historic house. The conservation easement ensures that the land will never be developed but it remains in private ownership and is not open to the public.
Peter and his late wife Henrietta (Rita) purchased this property and many others in the area 40 years ago to keep them from being developed. The Heydons donated conservation easements to Legacy Land Conservancy on much of their holdings over the years, creating a large block of protected land mostly in Scio Township but including some in Ann Arbor Township and Webster Township. This property borders those earlier conserved lands…