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Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park

Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park

State park in New York, United States


Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park is a 356-acre (1.44 km2) state park[2] in Dutchess County, New York in the United States. The park is located on the east shore of the Hudson River in the Town of Hyde Park and also includes Esopus Island.[5]

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The NYSDEC Norrie Point Environmental Center is located within the park

Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park is adjacent to Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park, and the two parks are collectively known as Mills-Norrie State Park.[1]

History

The park's lands were donated to New York State by Geraldine Morgan Thompson in memory of her sister, Margaret Lewis Norrie.[3] A large Civilian Conservation Corps camp existed at the park in 1937, housing workers that were developing the park's facilities.[6]

Nearby state parks and historic sites

See also

Notes

  1. Combined attendance for Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park and Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park.

References

  1. "Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  2. "Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9". 2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook (PDF). The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. 2014. p. 673. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  3. "State Parks Commissioner Announces Projects At Mills-Norrie". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. August 16, 2002. Archived from the original on September 24, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  4. Federal Writers' Project. Dutchess Co., N.Y. (1937). Dutchess County. William Penn Association of Philadelphia. p. 91. Retrieved September 25, 2016.

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