Marshall Field, III, Estate
Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve is a state park on Lloyd Neck, a peninsula extending into the Long Island Sound, in the Village of Lloyd Harbor, New York, Lloyd Harbor, New York (state), New York. It is operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. The park covers the former Marshall Field III estate that was developed in the 1920s, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Much of the park is today managed as a nature preserve, with a focus on protecting high-quality bird habitat. History Marshall Field III bought the property in 1921 and had an estate house built in 1925, one of the largest estates of the North Shore (Long Island)#Gold Coast nickname, Gold Coast mansions. an''Accompanying 16 photos, exterior and interior, from 1975 and 1976'' Field named the property "Caumsett", after the Matinecock (tribe), Matinecock tribe's original name for the peninsula meaning "place by a sharp rock". The Marshall ...
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State Park
State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, or recreational potential. There are state parks under the administration of the government of each U.S. state, some of the political divisions of Mexico#States, Mexican states, and in Brazil. The term is also used in the Australian states of template:state parks of Victoria, Victoria and state parks of New South Wales, New South Wales. The equivalent term used in Canada, Argentina, South Africa, and Belgium, is provincial park. Similar systems of local government maintained parks exist in other countries, but the terminology varies. State parks are thus similar to national parks, but under state rather than federal administration. Similarly, local government entities below state level may maintain parks, e.g., r ...
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