Description: Explore the fascinating history of Letchworth State Park including the stories of William Pryor Letchworth, Mary Jemison, and the Glen Iris Inn
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"There is in the western part of New York State, on the brink of a forested canyon and overlooking a stately waterfall, an idyllic home. It is such a home as a Thoreau or a Bryant or an Emerson might have loved... This is the home, however, not of a dreaming poet, but of a man with a poet's soul united to a practical and executive mind which has been devoted for more than the length of an average generation to the welfare of his fellow-men. He is a man of singular modesty, of gentle voice, of winnin
Edward Hagaman Hall, Secretary American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, on Mr. William Pryor Letchworth and the Glen Iris, 1906