The park includes a central green, a playground, a waterside promenade and a 13,000-square-foot pavilion that contains comfort stations, concessions, and an elevated café plaza.
In the late 1920’s the farm was sold to a local hospital that used it to provide occupational therapy for patients and to grow food for the hospital's meals.
The buildings and actors here portray the area through several eras, beginning with a 1690s Dutch house that shows what life was like for the region’s earliest settlers, and going through the 1860s.
Fall Foliage: Take the steps to the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument to take in spectacular views of the changing leaves of elm, oak, ginkgo and osage orange trees.
Fall Foliage: Stroll through one of the last undisturbed forests in the city, where oak, hickory, beech, maple, tulip and even rare species of fern, boldly color the park during this season.
See the first-of-its-kind $1.1 million storm-resilient Eco Dock, nearby. It has an upper floating, concrete dock and a lower floating, wooden dock. Leggi tutto.
