Westbook Farms started when William Bayard Cutting purchased the George C. Lorillard estate on the Connetiquot River in the Long Island town of Great River. Cutting was a New York City lawyer and sugar beet refiner, who made his fortune in railroads and in the development of the Red Hook, Brooklyn waterfront.

The 50-acre Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park is located in Canandaigua, New York. The historic park contains the former summer mansion, a collection of period garden architecture, nine formal and informal gardens, statuary, and a greenhouse complex. The property is a gift to New York State from philanthropists Frederick Ferris and Mary Clark Thompson.

In 1654, Thomas Pell, an English physician from Connecticut, purchased 50,000 acres from the local Lenape tribe.

Roger Williams Park is a 435-acre park and a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Providence, Rhode Island.

Olana was the eclectic home of Frederic Edwin Church and his wife Isabel. Frederic was one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The mansion was designed by Mr. Church in conjunction with architect Calvert Vaux and built between 1870 and 1872. A studio wing was added in 1889.

iMajor and Mrs. James H. Dooley transformed rough fields and pastures into a showplace many American millionaires were creating during the Gilded Age.

More than 1,000 feet of Jekyll Island’s coastline has eroded, and Driftwood Beach is the visually dramatic evidence.

The Jekyll Island Club membership was like a ‘Who’s Who’ of the the late 19th and early 20th centuries and represented 1/6th of the world’s wealth at the time including Rockefeller’s, Vanderbilts, Pulitzers, Morgans, Gould and more.

Old Bethpage Village Restoration is a living history museum and aims to recreate a typical 19th century Long Island community.

The Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site includes the restored farmhouse and interpretive center which includes portraits, letters, manuscripts and other information referring to Whitman, his work and his life.

Fort Totten, in Bayside, NY is a tangible reminder of New York City’s once powerful harbor defense system.

Its main focus was for gentleman’s sport of hunting fish and fowl as well as other outdoor activities. The club served members from 1886 though the 1960’s, and then through the 1970’s as the Connetquot River Club.

When you visit Mordecai Historic Park you will get a sense of what life was like during the period of Raleigh’s founding.

Founded in 1887, Virginia Beach was developed as a resort area, but after World War I it became an important base in the national coastal-defense system.

Ringwood Manor became the Gilded Age summer estate of partners Peter Cooper and Abram Hewitt and their families in 1853.

America’s oldest state park is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to bring you closer to the natural grandeur of the falls.

The visible landmark on the Great South Bay and the Fire Island National Seashore, is the lighthouse, built in 1857-1858 and is 168 feet tall.

Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve is situation on a scenic peninsula extending out into the Long Island Sound and offers miles of nature trails.

Ruth Livingston Mills and Ogden Mills owned homes in Paris, Newport, Manhattan and California, but it is this 65-room Beaux-Arts Gilded Age mansion that five generations of Livingstons lived and entertained. The 40,000 square foot mansion was originally a smaller house, built in 1832 and greatly altered and expanded to what it is today.

The Potomac River town of Williamsport was settled by General Otho Holland Williams following the American Revolution. General George Washington came to the area himself scouting the area as a possible location for out nation’s capital. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal came to Williamsport in 1834, creating an important commercial route to Washington, D.C. and the Chesapeake Bay.