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Garvies Point Museum and Preserve: Glen Cove: Nassau: Long Island: exhibits on Long Island and state geology, Native American archaeology, 62 acre preserve Genesee Country Village and Museum: Mumford: Monroe: Western New York
Garvies Point Museum and Preserve: Glen Cove: Nassau Multiple website, Long Island geology, Native American culture and archaeology, natural history Guild Hall (Easthampton, New York) East Hampton: Suffolk Art website, community arts center, includes the Guild Hall Museum with art exhibitions of visual artists and emerging regional artists
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia . The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , was founded in 1812.
Hempstead House, also known as the Gould-Guggenheim Estate or Sands Point Preserve, is a large American estate that was built for Howard Gould and completed for Daniel Guggenheim in 1912. It is located in Sands Point on the North Shore of Long Island in Nassau County, New York .
The Ronkonkoma Moraine, a terminal moraine, predates the Harbor Hill Moraine (which reached Long Island during the Wisconsin Glacial Episode); the Harbor Hill Moraine cut through the Ronkonkoma Moraine's western portions.
Like the rest of Long Island's North Shore, Manhasset is situated on a terminal moraine, which is named the Harbor Hill Moraine. [20] [21] This moraine was formed by glaciers during the Wisconsin Glacial Episode, and is named for Harbor Hill in Roslyn; Harbor Hill is the highest geographic point in Nassau County.
Like the rest of Long Island's North Shore, East Norwich is situated on a terminal moraine, which is named the Harbor Hill Moraine. [4] [5] This moraine was formed by glaciers during the Wisconsin Glacial Episode, and is named for Harbor Hill in Roslyn; Harbor Hill is the highest geographic point in Nassau County.
The park first opened in 1961. [1] [2] It is named for and dedicated after the late writer Christopher Morley, who lived a few blocks away in Roslyn Estates.[1] [2] It occupies 98 acres (40 ha) of land, and was once part of the Nettie Ryan Estate.