Marshall Joyce Wildlife Sanctuary is a very small parcel of woodland adjacent to the Jones River and Mulliken’s Landing in Kingston. 

Named for Marshall Woodside Joyce, a painter and teacher best known for his seascapes, ships, landscapes, and coastal scenes. Joyce was born in Medford, Massachusetts in 1912 and died at the age of 86 at his home in Kingston in 1998. The conservation property was established in 2008 with Community Preservation funds. In earlier times, this land was within the region of the Patuxet, members of the Wampanoag tribe, who inhabited the area around the Jones River now known as Duxbury, Kingston, and Plymouth.

A very short (0.05 mile) trail leads into the woods, to the edge of the marsh.

This small woodland, with hemlock, cedar, cherry, and oak trees, provides a wildlife connection between the Jones River and its salt marshes and the Bay Farm Conservation Area, across the street. The Jones River finds its source at Silver Lake and other brooks and springs in Pembroke, Halifax, and Kingston. It flows for 7.5 miles through Kingston, and drains into the Atlantic Ocean at Kingston Bay, downstream of this property.