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Auburn Heights Preserve is a state park, located in Yorklyn, Delaware. The park, which is around 360 acres,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/delaware/placesweprotect/oversee-farm.xml )〕 preserves the former home and estate of the Marshall family as well as portions of the family's former mills alongside the Red Clay Creek and additional land purchased by the state. The preserve contains several miles of trails open to walking, biking, and antique cars, and the state owns conservation easements on 160 acres of privately owned land adjacent to the park to help maintain the park's rural character. The park also features what the state bills as the largest collection of operational steam cars in the world, and a miniature coal-powered train that runs on tracks encircling the estate. The mansion, mills, and steam museum were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the Auburn Mills Historic District. ==Park history== Interest in preserving land near the Red Clay Creek was first expressed to the state by local residents and conservation groups in 2000. With the nearby National Vulcanized Fiber company looking to downsize, there was a general agreement among advocates that an opportunity for conservation had presented itself. Tom Marshall, the owner of a local estate, began donating portions of his land to the Delaware Nature Society for conservation purposes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/parks/Information/Documents/AVMP%20Docs/MasterPlan20110413.pdf )〕 The state began acquiring land for a preserve in 2002, with a purchase of 104 acres of NVF land for $3 million and a purchase of 65 acres of Marshall's old land from the Delaware Nature Society for $2.3 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/parks/Information/Documents/2013%20Scorp/Appendix%20F-%20Open%20Space%20Program%20Acquisition%20Inventory.pdf )〕 Additional purchases of 19 acres were made in 2005, bringing the preserve's total size to almost 200 acres.〔 It was made a state park in 2008.〔 After NVF declared bankruptcy, the state purchased 42 of the company's 119 acres of land, bringing the main portion of the preserve to a total of 234 acres.〔〔 The state also acquired conservation easements on much of the remaining NVF land and began working with its purchasing developer to establish a plan which would maintain open space, build a network of trails through the valley, and help revitalize the mill town by adaptive reuse of historic structures.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auburn Heights Preserve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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