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Borderland State Park, Easton Massachusetts - in 1 Minute
Borderland State Park Strange Things | Easton, Ma.
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History
In 1906, Oakes Ames, a Harvardbotanist (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.[4][5] 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.[3]
Activities and amenities
The park has more than 20 miles (32 km) 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.[6] The park features mansion tours, a visitors center, pond fishing and canoeing, ice skating, sledding, and disc golf. Mansion tours are typically held on Sundays during the months of April through May. The mansion is typically not open to the public other than during these tours, and for special events.[7]
Borderland is the home course for Oliver Ames High Schoolcross country team.[8] Until 2014, it was the site of the Hockomock League Cross Country championship race. It is also utilized by the Old Colony League for its annual cross country meet and various invitational meets on the 3.1-mile-loop (5.0 km) course, and was the site of the World Masters Flying Disc Championships in 1996.[9]
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.[10] Ames Mansion interiors were used as a filming location for Ghostbusters in 2015.[11] A fictionalized version of the park is featured in the novels Disappearance at Devil's Rock and Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay. Interiors, particularly the library, were featured in the 2019 Rian Johnson film Knives Out as the home of mystery writer and murder victim Harlan Thrombey. Production designer David Crank stated, “The general rule was that both the inside and outside of the house needed to look like the sort of house that Harlan would describe in one of his mysteries. The moment we walked into the mansion we knew right away that it had the personality we needed.”[12][13]
^"Life at Borderland". Borderland State Park. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
^"Ames Mansion". National Park Service. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
^"Trail Map". Borderland State Park. Department of Conservation and Recreation. 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
This page was last edited on 30 November 2023, at 23:22