Please consider a donation to help us preserve this beautiful green jewel!
Welcome to Millbrook
Meadow and Mill Pond
This magical four-acre park is nestled in downtown Rockport, just a stone's throw from Front Beach. Nearly half of it is Mill Pond -- a pristine wonderland of aquatic plants, with turtles, eels, ducks, birds, otters, beavers, and fish.
The Meadow comprises the other half, an open space with a beautiful winding brook, a frog pond, native shade garden and delightful stone bridge. It's a special place for play and relaxation. And a favorite spot for fairs and seasonal festivals.
Since 1938 volunteers have kept it beautiful for everyone. We have just completed a long overdue, major restoration of this green gem for our community. WELCOME!
** Featured by Wicked Local as one of seven GREAT places in Eastern MA to pack a picnic lunch! **
****2026 Holiday Wreaths****
​​With the holidays just around the corner, our designers are prepping our workshop and looking forward to creating wreaths again this year.
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Wreaths are $135, with $100 being a tax-deductible gift to the Millbrook Meadow Conservancy. Pickup will be on Sunday, November 29th of Thanksgiving weekend.
To place your order, please contact Ellen Lidington by email at elllid68@gmail.com (note the 3Ls) or on her cell phone at (339)225-5846.
Click on Donate Now and you will be re-directed to Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) where our fund is held to make an online payment. Checks will also be accepted at pickup.
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Thank you for your support!
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Eel O Rama 2026
The final eel count for 2026 is: 806
Stay tuned for this year's winner!
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BLOOMS!​
Photos: J Cafarella
Solomon Seal - Arching stems with white bell-like flowers along Frog Pond behind the swings.
Golden Ragwort - Yellow flowers along Frog Pond, brook, and pathway
WILDLIFE WATCH
* Please help to protect the wildlife in Mill Pond by practicing catch and release and avoid the use of barbed hooks. *
The Rockport Millbrook Meadow Conservancy
This beautiful meadow and pond have served many. Richard Tarr, the community's first settler in the 1690's, used it as his mowing field. In 1701, John Poole and Thomas Witham built a saw and grist mill here. And in 1938, with the intervention of the Rockport Garden Club, the meadow attained its best and highest use -- a park for the Town of Rockport. Generation after generation, our Millbrook Meadow and Pond have given Rockport respite and solace from the effects of hectic life. Now it is our generation's turn to give renewed life to the meadow. The Rockport Millbrook Meadow Conservancy has been formed to support restoration goals, and to ensure that the Meadow and the Mill Pond are cared for, to last another century.​
Please join us to preserve, protect and renew Rockport's green treasure.