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Another park that serve as a quiet oasis for rest and contemplation, also has function as educational, cultural, and horticultural activities. Garden park of Planting Fields’ cultivated gardens, rolling lawns and natural woodlands provide a unique and valuable resource for its community and for visitors from New York City and other areas.
The focal point of the Arboretum is Coe Hall, a magnificent Tudor-Revival Mansion from the Gold Coast era. Its architecture reflects the style popular during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Tours are available for both individuals and groups.
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Montauk Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse in New York area. Ordered by the latest American President, George Washington in 1972, the construction began at the year of 1976, and it also became one of the fourth active lighthouse in the states. This lighthouse height enforce light flashes every 5 seconds and can be seen a distance of 19 nautical miles.
These days, Montauk Lighthouse has one other functionality, which is as a museum. Museum itself contain with photograph of the lighthouse itself, and other gifts and merchandiser. A society also born in this lighthouse, Montauk Historical society. This society concerning about crafts and arts.
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These area comes from an idea of Harry Guggenheim on providing a place for homes of wide variety animals and birds.
Currently Sands Point has become famous for providing Special Exhibitions that are also enjoyable for all ages. The recent Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats, for example, was composed of modular sections which create environmentally lifelike, yet theatrical settings, integrating special effects. A few of the components included an 18th Century Neo-Gothic Portal: examples of bat art, folklore and myth; Upside-Down Myth Gallery: visitors view the world as a bat sees it; Portrait Hall: spectacular bat portrait photography. Many other exhibits, including hands-on, interactive displays add up to a comprehensive, enjoyable presentation that people of all ages will want to see again.
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Sagamore Hill is one of the 26th President of the United States of America, Theodore Roosevelt. He’s been living in there for thirty years and filled his daily activities with education learning. This Queen Anne mansion built in 1885 in Oyster Bay, from 1902 until 1908 this house became focus of international attention cause of its owner activities. The name Sagamore Hill itself comes after Sagamore Mohannis the Indian Chief, who once owned the land, was also called the “Summer White House” because Roosevelt was the first President to run the country away from the white house.
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One of places in Long Island you should visit if you’re like river rather then beach. Swan river offer clean, cold, freshwater stream, and with a sandy substrate. If you got fishing hobbies, it should be a great place for you, the river itself is tidal, so it will impact on limitation boat docking facilities.
Swan River is one of a few free-flowing, spring-fed streams on Long Island that have remained natural. In addition to native fish populations in Swan River, concentrations of sea-run brown trout occur in the tidal segment below Montauk Highway, during their fall spawning period (September–November).
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