25 Burrows Rd.
A part of the estate of State Senator and real estate developer
George B. Burrows, donated in 1909 to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association.
At the top of the hill, near the shelter house, is a bird effigy mound with a wingspan of 128 feet that was restored in 1934. A running fox mound
used to exist to the north of the bird mound.
Burrows Park is the home of the Mendota Yacht Club, founded in. In the early 1900s the club had a facility on North Blair Street in the present
James Madison Park. The club’s launching rails have been at Burrows since the mid 1970s. Sailing and sailboat racing have been taking place on
Mendota since 1839, when the “Lady of the Lake,” the first sailboat in the area was launched. The first sailing regatta occurred in 1856.
