Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge (Lloyd Harbor, New York)

 park, wildlife protection/conservation

An eighty acre estate on the peninsula at Lloyd's Neck on the north shore of Long Island called Target Rock Farm. Originally built by Rudolph and Olga (Von Neufville) Flinsch. Purchased from the Flinsches by Ambassador James W. Gerard in 1921 who made extensive improvements to the property.

In 1936 the property was sold to Investment Banker and pioneering mutual fund proprietor Ferdinand Eberstadt who constructed a new Georgian style home to a design by Delano and Aldrich in 1937-1938. Under Eberstadt's ownership Target Rock Farm would become known for its magnificent gardens. In 1967 he donated this property to the Federal government under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act.

Today, it is known as the Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge and under the operation of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, it can be visited by the public. The donated land was to be the formal legal basis that halted the proposed construction of a nuclear power plant by the Long Island Lighting Company in 1970. The house was demolished in 1995.

www.fws.gov/Refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=52568