Lyme — The Lyme Land Conservation Trust announced Wednesday that it has completed fundraising for the purchase of its proposed 82-acre Brockway Hawthorne Wildlife Preserve in Hadlyme.

The land trust will use a $260,000 state grant announced in mid-November as part of the $400,000 purchase of the property, the organization said in a news release. Fundraising for the project focused on the Hadlyme community, with more than $100,000 raised through the Hadlyme Challenge Match Grant. An anonymous donor pledged up to $50,00 to match individual pledges of $1,000, the land trust said.

The land trust also sponsored a Labor Day fundraising event and walking tours of the preserve as part of the fundraising effort. The balance needed for the purchase has been pledged by other local donors and a local foundation.

The land trust plans to complete the purchase early in 2017 and hopes to open the preserve to the public in the spring. It is located off Brush Hill and Pratt roads and connects to the land trust’s Ravine Trail Preserve. It will protect part of the watershed for Whalebone Creek, a key tributary for Whalebone Cove, which is under the management of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

The preserve will be named in honor of the Brockway and Hawthorne families, who have owned the land for several generations. Current owner William Hawthorne has agreed to sell the property to the Land Trust at a discount from its market value, the land trust said.