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

Thomas Edison is best known for the incandescent lamp and phonograph, but Edison’s greatest invention was a new way to invent: the industrial research and development laboratory.

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.

The Cornish ruins are a part of the Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve, and offers a glimpse into the past, with the ruins of industrialist Edward Cornish’s 650-acre gilded age estate.

This park is right in the middle of the downtown Edinburgh, and easy to get to.

Opened in 1796, this lighthouse was the first built in New York State, and the fourth oldest working lighthouse in the United States.

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.

Clermont was the Hudson River seat of New York’s politically and socially prominent Livingston Family.

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.

Coe Hall is the 65-room centerpiece of the 409-acre Planting Fields Historic State Park located in Oyster Bay, New York. The estate was originally landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, featuring greenhouses, rolling lawns, formal gardens, woodland paths and outstanding plant collections.