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Great River, New York is a suburban hamlet and CDP in the Town of Islip, Suffolk, USA situated approximately 50 miles east of NYC on South Shore of L.I., adjoining the Great South Bay, protected from the Atlantic Ocean by Fire Island. Great River's name derives from Connetquot, an Algonquian word for Great River. Prior to the 1900s Great River was primarily home to wealthy families on mansion estates. As of the 2010 census, the population of Great River was 1,489.Great River's buildings include a New York City-style steak house in a turn of the century Public house, a delicatessen, a rural delivery post office and the Great River Fire Department.
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  • 1. Bayard Cutting Arboretum Great River
    Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park is a 691-acre state park located in the hamlet of Great River, New York, on Long Island. The park includes an arboretum designed by Frederick Law Olmsted for William Bayard Cutting in 1886, as well as a mansion designed by Charles C. Haight. Cutting purchased the property in 1881.The house at the heart of the park, Westbrook, is modeled on a Tudor-style English country house. The interior of the 60-room mansion features large pieces of oak furniture, stained-glass windows, and imported fireplaces. Views of the Connetquot River can be seen from across the open lawn.On June 18, 1936, the Long Island State Park Commission was gifted 200 acres of the Cutting estate for use as an arboretum by Mrs. Bayard James, daughter of William Cutting, with the stipulatio...
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