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Lanark is the former estate of Isabel and Wiley Hill, a pair of horticulturalists who moved there as newlyweds in 1948. They spent the next fifty years enlarging their house and developing the surrounding 30-acre garden. Wiley Hill died in 1995, and Isabel continued to care for the grounds until her
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