{"id":28773,"date":"2024-05-19T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/?p=28773"},"modified":"2024-05-19T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T18:25:38","slug":"families-of-the-hill-walking-tour-homes-of-the-highlands-historic-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/families-of-the-hill-walking-tour-homes-of-the-highlands-historic-district\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Families of the Hill&#8221; Walking Tour: Homes of the Highlands Historic District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>This tour was developed by the Fall River Office of Tourism under Mayor Carlton M. Viveiros in May 1985 to showcase the extraordinary architecture of the Highlands Historic District in Fall River. The Highlands Historic District is listed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/nationalregister\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Register of Historic Places. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUGGESTED TOUR ROUTE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>START: Highland Avenue at Maple Street<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>North along Highland to French Street;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>French Street to Belmont:Street;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belmont Street (North) to Lincoln Avenue;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lincoln Avenue (West) to Rock Street);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rock Street (South) to Locust Street;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Locust Street (East) to High Street;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High Street (North) to Highland to Maple (End)<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>1 CHARLES H. ROBBINS HOUSE<br>140 Highland Avenue<\/strong><br>C. 1872-75 Built for Charles H. Robbins, a music teacher. A detailed Italianate house of grand proportion featuring a bracketed cupola, oversized portico supported by square columns and arched doorway, flanked by bracketed bays.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"981\" height=\"805\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/148-Highland-Ave-Google-Maps.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28788 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/148-Highland-Ave-Google-Maps.png 981w, https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/148-Highland-Ave-Google-Maps-480x394.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 981px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2 QUEQUECHAN ENGINE HOUSE<br>330 Prospect Street<\/strong><br>Nicknamed &#8220;The House of Lords&#8221; because lt was a meeting place for politicians and round-the-clock card players, the engine house was built in 1873 at a cost of $20,000. It is designed in the Ruskinian-Gothic style by architects Hartwell &amp; Swazey, whose other credits include the Academy Building (in the Downtown Commercial District), the Central Congregational Society, and several other Fall River mansions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>3 THEODORE W. BORDEN ESTATE<br>240 Highland Avenue<\/strong><br>Typical of the upper, middle-class, Victorian family complex, the estate with mansion, carriage house, gasebo and cottage (1 886), was built in 1872 in the classical, Second Empire style. Theodore W. Borden was in the lumber business and the little mansard cottage was built for his daughter in 1886. Eventually, both mirage and gasebo were divided together to become 39 Belmont Street.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"854\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240-Highland-Ave-Google-Maps.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28789 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240-Highland-Ave-Google-Maps.png 841w, https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240-Highland-Ave-Google-Maps-480x487.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 841px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/72-Belmont-St-Google-Maps.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28792 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/72-Belmont-St-Google-Maps.png 820w, https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/72-Belmont-St-Google-Maps-480x439.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 820px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>4 CHAUNCEY SEARS MANSION<br>72 Belmont Street<\/strong><br>Built in 1893 in an exuberant Queen Anne Colonial Revival, eclectic style, it has most of its original garden intact. Chauncey Sears was a contractor and built a number of the local mills.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5 ELIZABETH J. McWHIRR HOUSE<br>243 French Street<\/strong><br>This 2\u00bd story Colonial shingle-style house with Ionic, Georgian-Revival detail was built in 1897 for Elizabeth J. McWhirr, the widow of Robert A. McWhirr, owner of McWhirr&#8217;s Dry Goods, later a major department store downtown (demolished in 1 979).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 56%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>6 FRANKLIN L. ALMY HOUSE<br>685 Rock Street<\/strong><br>This 2\u00bd story and mansard frame house of irregular plan on granite foundation is a fine example of Late Victorian style. Built c. 1883 for Franklin L. Almy, co\u00adpublisher with J. C. Milne of the Fall River Daily News and Fall River Weekly News. Features are a variety of one two-story bays and an angled corner tower characteristic of High Victorian Gothic.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"761\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/685-rock-st-fall-river-ma-primary-photo-1024x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28793 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/685-rock-st-fall-river-ma-primary-photo-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/685-rock-st-fall-river-ma-primary-photo-980x729.jpg 980w, https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/685-rock-st-fall-river-ma-primary-photo-480x357.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7 DANA D. BRAYTON HOUSE<br>577 Rock Street<\/strong><br>This Queen Anne style house was built in 1901 for Dana D. Brayton. A Colonial Revival with a Queen Anne porch; 2 story side bay with leaded window. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8 JEFFERSON BORDEN&#8217;S SECOND HOUSE<br>570 Rock Street<\/strong><br>After moving and selling his Greek Revival house to William Jennings, Jefferson Borden built this imposing Italianate villa-style mansion in 1863. Jefferson Borden was the classic Fall River success story: President of Fall River Iron Works, Fall River Bleachery, American Linen Company, Troy Cotton and Wool Mills, Executive Officer of American Print Works, Director of Borden Mining Company and Anawan Manufacturing Company, Fall River Machine Company, Fall River and Providence Steamboat Company, Fall River Glass Works and Metacomet Manufacturing Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Remmington-Borden-House-511-Rock-Street-6-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28795 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Remmington-Borden-House-511-Rock-Street-6-1-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Remmington-Borden-House-511-Rock-Street-6-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>9 REMINGTON-BORDEN HOUSE<br>51 1 Rock Street<\/strong><br>One of the few full-blown carpenter Gothic Revival cottages in Fall River representing the Mid-Victorian phase of the style. Built in 1858 for Joseph Remington, acid manufacturer, and sold in 1864 to Richard B. Borden, son of Colonel Richard Borden. This house featured delicate vergeboards at all gables and dormers, brick chimneys with Gothic arches and dentil courses, gable field windows with pointed arches, and quatre-foil windows. A brick carriage house still stands on the grounds.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10 FALL RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY<\/strong><br><strong>Elizabeth Hitchcock Brayton House<br>451 Rock Street<\/strong><br>Built in 1843 of native Fall River granite, the house was originally located below South Main Street (in the Columbia Street Cultural District) near the old harbor by Andrew Robeson. In 1870 it was moved stone by stone to the present site by Robert K. Remington, and was enlarged and updated in the high Victorian style of the Second Empire taste. The house contains sixteen rooms filled with objets d&#8217;art of local interest including portraits, furniture, china, glass, a children&#8217;s room, military and naval exhibits, and a library of historical and genealogical materials. The polychrome stenciling and gas fixtures from the 1870 renovations still remaln, and the structure was a private residence until 1937, when given as a museum to the Historical Society by David A. Brayton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>11 CARR-OSBORN HOUSE<br>456 Rock Street<\/strong><br>Built in 1843 by Joseph Durfee, the house passed down through his daughter to the Carr and Osborn families and was designed by Russell Warren. It remains the most imposing estate of the Classical style in the Highlands with the carriage house and most of the original land intact.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28796 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.jpg 780w, https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-480x362.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 780px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>12 WILLIAM L.S. BRAYTON MANSION<br>417 Rock Street<\/strong><br>Built in 1920, this Colonial Revival home with Adamesque, Neo-Classical wood detail represents one of the last great structures built by mill-owning families in the Highlands. The house replaces an early ltalianate -structure known as the &#8220;Captain Reynard Estate,&#8221; and presently serves as the Fall River Public School Department&#8217;s administration building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>13 AZARIAH S. TRIPP HOUSE<br>389 Rock Street<\/strong><br>This high-style Second Empire house with stick style trim was built c. 1878 for Azariah S. Tripp, cashier, Metacomet National Bank. It featured slate mansard, Jacobean &#8220;sun-bonnet&#8221; center gable with solid fretted vergeboard, pedimented windows and portico supports 2nd story bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:32% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Edmund-Chase-House-388-Rock-Street-3-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28797 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>14 EDMUND CHASE HOUSE<br>388 Rock Street<\/strong> <br>Built in 1874 for Edmund Chase, a tanner and belt manufacturer, this crisply detailed Second Empire 2 story house, constructed of pressed brick, featured a tooled granite foundation, slate roof with iron cresting, ornate pedimented dormers, neo-classical entry porch with paired Ionic columns and heavy entablature. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>15 TRAFFORD-ABBE HOUSE<br>375 Rock Street<\/strong><br>This Second Empire style 2 story house was built in 1880-1 882 by Ichabod Burt, a local builder, for Rachel M. Trafford, second wife and widow of William B. Trafford, a manufacturer who died in 1880. This house featured a mansard style roof, Jacobean center gable with solid pattern verge, elaborate entrance porch with paired piers, second story bay and 3 story engaged turret with tent top. House was sold in 1895 to Alanson J. Abbe, a physician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>16 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH<br>282 Rock Street<\/strong><br>Constructed between 1911-13, it was designed by architects Sheply, Rutan and Coolidge of Boston. The complex is in the eccesiastical Gothic Revival style. Miss Sarah S. Brayton presented this magnificent church-parish house structure as a gift to her Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>17 B.M.C. DURFEE HIGH SCHOOL (Former)<br>289 Rock Street<\/strong><br>Given to the City of Fall River in 1886 by Mrs. Mary Brayton Young in memory of her son, Bradford Matthew Chaloner Durfee, who died a young man, and who had expressed concern about education in the community. The structure, in modern Renaissance style, was designed by architect George Clough, with its five-story clock tower (which chimed every momlng twenty-nine times, marking young Durfee&#8217;s life span) and observatory is considered the &#8220;signature&#8221; of the Highlands.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"462\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Durfee_High_School_Fall_River_MA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28798 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Durfee_High_School_Fall_River_MA.jpg 462w, https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Durfee_High_School_Fall_River_MA-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:38% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28799 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/photo.jpg 576w, https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/photo-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 576px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>18 WILLIAM C. DAVOL MANSION<br>252 High Street<\/strong><br>Built in 1876 by mill owner William C. Davol, Jr., who also served as the city&#8217;s fire chief. The house had alarm bells installed and an early elevator, and is attributed to Hartwell &amp; Swazey architects who did much work in Fall River. It is the community&#8217;s finest example of residential stick-Gothic architecture. The estale originally extended west, encompassing the entire block of Rock Street with the typical &#8220;Fall River Verandah&#8221; to view the magnificent sunsets over Mt. Hope Bay.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>19 JEFFERSON BORDEN&#8217;S 1ST HOUSE<br>386 High Street<\/strong><br>This high-style, Greek Revival house was probably designed by the noted Rhode Island architect, Russell Warren, and most closely resembles the Dimond House (1838) on Hope Street in Bristol, Rhode Island. Built about 1840, the Jefferson Borden House was originally located below South Main Street, (in today&#8217;s Columbia Street Cultural District) and moved to its present location in 1860. It is among the earliest Highlands homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>20 JAMES W. WIXON HOUSE<br>413 High Street<\/strong><br>Built c. 1850, for James W. Wixon, Clothier, this Italianate farmhouse with Queen Anne alterations featured facade gable with paladian window with sides blocked, 1 story full front porch, center hall plan, window caps, 6 over 6 windows, with story side 3-sided bays. The Susan H. Wixon School is named for the Wixon&#8217;s talented daughter, who not only taught in the City Public School system, but was also a noted writer of poetry. Some of her works are on display in the Fall River Historical Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>21 RANDALL N. DURFEE HOUSE<br>19 Highland Avenue<\/strong><br>Built in 1910 for Randall N. Durfee, cotton broker, this Early Twentieth Century Colonial Revial house featured a granite foundation, large front portico, glass enclosed with pediment, central hall plan and multi-paned windows. This is the second house on this site. The previous house was built c. 1870 and belonged to Walter C. Durfee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>22 JOHN JENKS HOUSE<br>55 Highland Avenue<\/strong><br>Built c. 1845 for John Jenks and Nancy Bellows Jenks, great-grandmother of Mrs. Nannie Borden Phillips, a benefactor of the Historica l Society, this 2\u00bd story Greek Revival is one of the four, templed-fronted houses in the Highlands. 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