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Borderland State Park

State park in Massachusetts, United States

Summary

State park in Massachusetts, United States

Field	Value
name	Borderland State Park
photo	Ames Mansion Borderland.jpg
photo_caption	Ames Mansion
photo_alt	Mansion
photo_width	280
map	USA Massachusetts#USA
map_caption	Location in Massachusetts
map_width	280
relief	1
label	Borderland State Park
location	Easton and Sharon, Massachusetts, United States
coordinates
coords_ref
area	1843 acre
elevation	203 ft
established	1971
administrator	Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
website
embed	yes
name	Borderland Historic District
nrhp_type	hd
nocat	yes
caption	The creators of Borderland
image_size	280
built	1910
architect	Ames, Blanche Ames; Ames, Oakes
architecture	Late Gothic Revival, Georgian, Colonial Revival
added	June 16, 1997
refnum	97000497

Borderland State Park is an American history and nature preserve with public recreational features located in the towns of Easton and Sharon, Massachusetts. The state park encompasses 1843 acre surrounding the Ames Mansion, which was built in 1910. The area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Borderland Historic District in 1997. It is operated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, with an appointed advisory council that participates in policy decision-making.

History

In 1906, Oakes Ames, a Harvard botanist (son of Massachusetts governor Oliver Ames and grandson of U.S. Representative Oakes Ames), and his wife Blanche Ames Ames (daughter of Mississippi governor Adelbert Ames, but not related to Oakes Ames), an artist and feminist, purchased land on the border of Sharon and Easton. There they built a mansion that includes Blanche Ames' studio, which still stands and created a nature preserve with woodland paths and roadways and man-made ponds. The family's home, a three-story, 20-room stone mansion constructed in 1910, was built largely at the direction of Blanche Ames. Her paintings still hang on the walls and much of the original furnishings are still intact. After it remained in the family for 65 years, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts acquired the Borderland estate in 1971, two years after the death of Blanche Ames, and opened it as a state park.

Activities and amenities

The park has more than 20 mi of wooded trails for hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding. Trails include a portion of the Bay Circuit Trail and the Quarry Loop to Moyles Quarry which supplied the facing stone for the Canton Viaduct in 1835.

Borderland is the home course for Oliver Ames High School cross country team.

In popular culture

The park has been used in a commercial, a documentary, and the film Mermaids. Scenes from the Martin Scorsese movie Shutter Island were shot at the stone lodge next to Leach Pond in 2008.

Gallery

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References

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(April 2012). "2012 Acreage Listing". Department of Conservation and Recreation.
(2017-06-20). "Borderland State Park". Department of Conservation and Recreation.
"Life at Borderland". Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
"Ames Mansion". National Park Service.
(2019). "Trail Map". Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Stewart, Louis. (September 19, 2013). "Oliver Ames cross-country team runs past Canton". Gatehouse Media.
Downing, Vicki-Ann. (May 1, 2008). "Hollywood, Scorsese sets sights on Borderland State Park". Patriot Ledger.
Paulin, Benjamin. (August 26, 2015). "Easton mansion a scary good fit for new Ghostbusters movie". The Enterprise.

Wikipedia Source

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