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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 .
Honey Creek State Natural Area: Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site: El Paso 860 acres (350 ha) 1970 Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site: Huntsville State Park: Walker 2,083.2-acre (843 ha) 1956 Huntsville State Park swimming area: Inks Lake State Park: Burnet 1,201 acres (486 ha) 1950 Inks Lake State Park: Kickapoo Cavern State Park ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Stephen F. Austin Memorial State Historic Site: 900 Oil Field Rd. West Columbia: Brazoria: THC Varner–Hogg Plantation State Historic Site†⁕⁑ More images: 1702 N. 13th St. West Columbia: Brazoria
National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
The money was used to purchase an additional 336 acres of land at San Jacinto. The state appropriated another $25,000 in 1907 for improvements at the battleground and officially named it San Jacinto State Park, the first official state park in Texas. A governor appointed local commission managed the park and reported to the State Board of Control.