Word: pruyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objections of neighbors trying to exclude "undesirable elements," and despite the lavish offers of land developers, some 1,400 acres of lush Long Island exurbia-long owned by the late Marshall Field-became a New York State park. Selling the property for $4,278,000 were his widow, Ruth Pruyn Field, and the Field Foundation. With its polo field, shooting preserve, seaplane and yacht docks, the Caumsett domain was called by Long Island State Park Commission President Robert Moses-"one of the largest and finest remaining privately owned estates on the Island...