Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park

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Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park is a state park in Dutchess County, New York in the USA. The park is located on the east shore of the Hudson River in the Town of Hyde Park. Within the state park is the Staatsburgh State Historic Site, informally called Mills Mansion, a 65-room estate home designed by the architects McKim, Mead, and White.

History

Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park was donated to New York State by Geraldine Morgan Thompson in memory of her sister, Margaret Lewis Norrie. In 1937 a large Civilian Conservation Corps Camp housed the young men who were developing the area into a recreational center.^[1]

Nearby state parks and historic sites

James Baird State Park (Dutchess County)
Staatsburgh State Historic Site (Dutchess County)
Lake Taghkanic State Park (Columbia County)
Clermont State Historic Site (Columbia County)
Olana State Historic Site (Columbia County)

References

↑ Dutchess County, American Guide Series, (WPA), The William Penn Association of Philadelphia, 1937

External links

New York State Parks: Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park, retrieved 2009-10-03
New York State Parks: Staatsburgh State Historic Site, retrieved 2009-10-03

Coordinates: 41°51′25″N 73°55′19″W / 41.857°N 73.922°W / 41.857; -73.922

Protected areas of New York

Federal

National Historic Sites	Eleanor Roosevelt Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt Martin Van Buren Sagamore Hill Saint Paul's Church Saratoga Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Women's Rights

National Memorials	Federal Hall General Grant Hamilton Grange Statue of Liberty

National Monuments	African Burial Ground Castle Clinton Fort Stanwix Governors Island

National Trails	Appalachian Trail North Country National Scenic Trail

National Seashores and Recreation Areas	Fire Island NS Gateway NRA Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River

National Historic Sites	Kate Mullany affiliated Thomas Cole affiliated

National Wildlife Refuges	Amagansett Conscience Point Elizabeth A. Morton Iroquois Montezuma Oyster Bay Sayville Seatuck Shawangunk Grasslands Target Rock Wallkill River Wertheim

National Forests	Finger Lakes

Wilderness Areas	Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness

State

State Parks	Allen H. Treman Allegany Amherst Battle Island Bayard Cutting Arboretum Bayswater Point Bear Mountain Beaver Island Beechwood Belmont Lake Bethpage Betty & Wilbur Davis Big Six Mile Creek Blauvelt Bonavista Bowman Lake Braddock Bay Brentwood Bristol Beach Brookhaven Buckhorn Island Buffalo Harbor Burnham Point Buttermilk Falls Caleb Smith Camp Hero Canandaigua Lake Canoe-Picnic Point Captree Catharine Valley Trail Caumsett Cayuga Lake Cedar Island Cedar Point Chenango Valley Cherry Plain Chimney Bluffs Chittenango Falls Clarence Fahnestock Clark Reservation Clay Pit Ponds Cold Spring Harbor Coles Creek Conesus Lake Connetquot River Crab Island Croil Island Cumberland Bay Darien Lakes De Veaux Woods Dean's Cove Delta Lake Devil's Hole Dewolf Point Donald J. Trump Earl W. Brydges Eel Weir Emma Treadwell Thacher Empire – Fulton Ferry Evangola Fahnestock Fair Haven Beach Fillmore Glen Fort Niagara Four Mile Creek Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Frenchman Island Galop Island Gantry Plaza Gilbert Lake Gilgo Glimmerglass Golden Hill Goosepond Mountain Grafton Lakes Grass Point Green Lakes Hamlin Beach Harriet Hollister Spencer Harriman Haverstraw Beach Heckscher Hempstead Lake High Tor Highland Lakes Higley Flow Hither Hills Honeoye Hook Mountain Hudson Highlands Hudson River Islands Hudson River Hunt's Pond Iona Island Irondequoit Bay Jacques Cartier James Baird Jamesport John Boyd Thacher Jones Beach Joseph Davis Keewaydin Keuka Lake Knox Farm Kring Point Lake Erie Lake Superior Lake Taghkanic Lakeside Beach Letchworth Lock 32 Lodi Point Long Island Long Point - Finger Lakes Long Point - Thousand Islands Long Point on Lake Chautauqua Macomb Reservation Margaret Lewis Norrie Mark Twain Mary Island Max V. Shaul Mexico Point Midway Mine Kill Minnewaska Montauk Downs Montauk Point Moreau Lake Napeague Newtown Battlefield Niagara Falls Nissequogue River Nyack Beach Oak Orchard Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills Old Croton Aqueduct Old Erie Canal Oquaga Creek Orient Beach Peebles Island Pinnacle Pixley Falls Point Au Roche Reservoir Riverbank Robert G. Wehle Robert H. Treman Robert Moses - Long Island Robert Moses - Thousand Islands Robert V. Riddell Roberto Clemente Rockefeller Rockland Lake Sampson Sandy Island Beach Saratoga Lake Saratoga Spa Schodack Island Schunemunk Mountain Selkirk Shores Seneca Lake Shadmoor Shaver Pond Nature Center Silver Lake Sonnenberg Gardens Southwick Beach St. Lawrence State Park at the Fair Sterling Forest Steuben Memorial Stony Brook Storm King Sunken Meadow Taconic Outdoor Education Center Taconic - Copake Falls Area Taconic - Rudd Pond Area Tallman Mountain Taughannock Falls Theodore Roosevelt Nature Center Thompson's Lake Tioga Trail View Valley Stream Verona Beach Waterson Point Watkins Glen Wellesley Island Westcott Beach Whetstone Gulf Whirlpool Wildwood Wilson-Tuscarora Wonder Lake Woodlawn Beach

State Historic Sites	Bennington Battlefield Caumsett Clermont Clinton House Crailo Crown Point Darwin Martin House Fort Montgomery Fort Ontario Ganondagan Grant Cottage Herkimer Home Hyde Hall John Brown Farm and Gravesite John Burroughs Memorial (Woodchuck Lodge) John Hay Homestead Johnson Hall Knox's Headquarters Lorenzo New Windsor Cantonment Olana Old Croton Aqueduct Old Erie Canal Old Fort Niagara Oriskany Battlefield Philipse Manor Hall Plantings Fields Arboretum -- Coe Hall Historic House Museum Sackets Harbor Battlefield Schoharie Crossing Schuyler Mansion Senate House Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion Staatsburgh Steuben Memorial Stony Point Battlefield Walt Whitman Birthplace Washington's Headquarters

State Forests	402 state forests

Wild Forests	Aldrich Balsam Black River Blackhead Blue Mountain Bluestone Cherry Ridge Colgate Lake Cranberry Lake Crystal Lake Debar Mountain Dry Brook Ferris Lake Fulton Chain Grass River Halcott Mountain Hammond Pond Horseshoe Hunter Mountain Independence River Jessup River Kaaterskill Lake George Middle Mountain Moose River Plains Overlook Mountain Phoenica Raquette Boreal Saranac Lakes Sargent Ponds Shaler Mountain Shandaken Sundown Taylor Pond Vanderwhacker Mountain Watson East Triangle White Hill Wilcox Lake Willowemoc Windham High Peak

Forest Preserve	Adirondack Park Catskill Park

Other

Nature Conservancy	Eugene and Agnes Meyer Nature Preserve Santanoni Arthur W. Butler Memorial Indian Brook Assemblage Marrion Yarrow Preserve Mildred E. Grierson Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary Mount Holly Preserve Henry Morgenthau Preserve Mount Holly Sanctuary Otter Creek Preserve Uplands Farm Nature Sanctuary Atlantic Double Dunes Pine Neck Nature Sanctuary Long Island Center for Conservation Ruth Wales Sanctuary Calverton Ponds Accabonac Harbor Peconic Estuary Big Woods Mashomack Montauk Mountain Andy Warhol Visual Arts Coon Mountain Chaumont Barrens Christman Clintonville Pine Barrens Centon El Dorado Beach O.D. von Engeln Everton Falls Freund Gadway Sandstone Pavement Barrens Hannacroix Ravine Kenrose Limestone Rise Lisha Kill Long Pond Preserve Lordsland Lower Poultney River and Saddles Mianus River Gorge Moccasin Kill Nellie Hill Pawling Nature Roger Perry Memorial Sam's Point Lewis A. Swyer Schunemunk Mountain Shadmoor Silver Lake Bog Preserve Spring Pond Bog Preserve Stewart Thompson Pond and Stissing Mountain West Branch Whitbeck Memorial Grove

Nature centers	List of nature centers in New York

Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park

History

Nearby state parks and historic sites

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