Stone Zoo
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Stone Zoo is a medium-small size zoo (around 26 acres) in Stoneham, Massachusetts, United States. It is operated by Zoo New England, which also operates the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. It was once a very popular zoo in the 1970s and 80s featuring elephants, giraffes, a polar bear, a large house of birds and many other exhibits. It went through a transition period where the zoo had almost no large animals. Recently the old facilities have been put to new uses such as using the giraffe house as an animal education center. The current layout aims to use the whole grounds to be interesting and educational without featuring as many large animals as a major zoo.
That the Stone Zoo is located in Stoneham is purely a coincidence which has nothing to do with its name. The zoo was founded in 1905 as the Middlesex Fells Zoo and was renamed the Stone Zoo in honor of Walter D. Stone, a former zoo director. [1]
On September 24, 2005 Stone Zoo celebrated its 100 year anniversary.
