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Harkness Memorial State Park is a historic preservation area with botanical garden and recreational features located on Long Island Sound in the town of Waterford, Connecticut. The state park 's 304 acres (123 ha) center around Eolia , a 42-room Renaissance Revival mansion with formal gardens and greenhouses .
This is a list of state parks, reserves, forests and wildlife management areas (WMAs) in the Connecticut state park and forest system, shown in five tables. The first table lists state parks and reserves, the second lists state park trails, the third lists state forests, the fourth lists Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and the fifth lists other state-owned, recreation-related areas.
Harkness Memorial State Park is a recreational area that provides a picturesque view of Long Island Sound. The park features the former mansion, gardens and grounds of Edward Harkness, who bought the property in 1907. Adjacent to the Harkness Memorial State Park is Camp Harkness for the Handicapped, a summer facility for children and adults ...
The commission approved $1.5 million for upgrades to utilities and the pavilion at Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme. Waterford's Harkness Memorial State Park will receive $750,000 for ...
Mary Emma Stillman Harkness (July 4, 1874 – June 6, 1950) [1] was an American philanthropist. The wife of Edward Harkness , she participated in his philanthropy and also gave independently to various institutions, particularly for women's education, continuing to do so after his death in 1940.
Harkness Memorial State Park, a 230-acre park and mansion in Waterford, Connecticut; Harkness rating system, a chess rating system used from 1950 to 1960. Harkness table, a style of teaching; Harkness Tower, a Gothic structure at Yale University; Rosa 'Anne Harkness', a rose variety; Harkness, Victoria, a western suburb of Melbourne, in the ...
Rocky Neck State Park is a public recreation area encompassing 710 acres (290 ha) on Long Island Sound in the town of East Lyme, Connecticut, United States. The park encompasses a tidal river , a broad salt marsh , white sand beaches, rocky shores, and a large stone pavilion dating from the 1930s.
Edward Stephen Harkness (January 22, 1874 – January 29, 1940) was an American philanthropist.Given privately and through his family's Commonwealth Fund, Harkness' gifts to private hospitals, art museums, and educational institutions in the Northeastern United States were among the largest of the early twentieth century.