The Caumsett State Park 50K- Date set for 2004- March 7th
10 a.m. start.   Application here

 
Caumsett State Park is located at Lloyd's Neck in the Town of Huntington, New York.

In 1921, Marshall Field III bought a 1,750 acre estate and called the land by its
Matenecock Indian name Caumsett, meaning "place by a sharp rock"

Marshall was the grandson of the founder and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times.
In 1922, the architect John Russell Pope was hired to advised Marshall on the design of the estate which
had sport facilities for everything but golf; and included, indoor and outdoor tennis, horseback riding,
pheasant shooting, skeet-shooting, trout fishing, polo, swimming and boating.
A boat dock was built for Field's large steam yacht the Coursande, and roads were built for motoring.

The estate had a complete dairy farm holding 80 head of cattle and was a fully
self-contained community having its own water supply and electrical supply.
They farmed the land and grew their own vegetables and had firewood from the
estate grounds' large woodlands.

Now, Causmsett State Park is administered by the State of New York's Office of Parks,
recreation and Historic Preservation.
The park provides the modern day recreational outing for all of us to enjoy,
fishing on the Sound, nature photography, bird watching and use of its many roads
for horseback riding, walking, hiking and biking.