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Malabar Farm State Park, Lucas, OH

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Malabar Farm State Park

Former country farm of author Louis Bromfield in Richland County, now an Ohio state park supported by a nonprofit foundation.

Lucas, OH

About Malabar Farm State Park

Malabar Farm was the country home of Louis Bromfield, a Mansfield-born writer who won a Pulitzer Prize and promoted sustainable farming and conservation. The Malabar Farm Foundation, a nonprofit, works to preserve his house and legacy and supports the Ohio state park on the site. Visitors can explore the farm grounds and the Visitors Education Center, which the foundation helped build in 2006. The foundation also hosts public barn dances in the historic Herring barn beside the Big House, and it highlights the farm's ties to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who married there in 1945. Official state park details such as hours and tours are provided by the Ohio Division of Natural Resources rather than by these foundation pages.

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