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The mansion of the Harold Pratt estate, Welwyn, at Glen Cove, Long Island, New York State, US. Currently, the mansion houses the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. Welwyn Preserve County Park is a 204-acre (0.83 km 2) public nature reserve in Glen Cove, on the North Shore of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.
Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, United States.The city's population was 28,365 at the time of the 2020 census. Of Nassau County's five municipalities, Glen Cove is one of two that are cities, rather than towns – the other being Long Beach.
Welwyn was part of the estate of Harold Irving Pratt, an American oil industrialist and philanthropist who was born in 1877 and died at Glen Cove in 1939. [1] Harold's wife, Harriet, left the Welwyn estate to Nassau County when she died in 1969. The mansion was neglected for approximately 30 years, during which time for a ten-year period it was ...
Glen Cove (Sogorea Te') The City of Vallejo, California built Glen Cove Waterfront Park after years of protests from Ohlone people and their allies that the location was a sacred site known as Sogorea Te', one of the last native village sites in the San Francisco Bay that had escaped urban development. [48] [49] Santa Cruz
An 1873 map of Glen Cove shows the two mill ponds that historically existed at its downtown. When Glen Cove started to industrialize in the mid-to-late 19th Century, Glen Cove Creek was used by a local starch plant to dispose of waste; the settling of the waste gave the creek a strong odor, which could be smelled from nearby Sea Cliff when the wind blew in that direction.
Woolworth Estate, also referred to Winfield Hall, is a historic estate located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York.It was designed in 1916 by architect C. P. H. Gilbert (1861–1952) for Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852–1919).
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Glen Cove Avenue (CR C91) in Glen Head, as seen in 2021. Glen Cove Avenue is a major, 3.45-mile (5.55 km) road connecting Roslyn Harbor and Glen Cove in Nassau County, on Long Island, New York, in the United States. The road, for its entire length is designated as unsigned County Route C91.