Our History
This organization is forever grateful to the Perkins family, who owned this land for almost seven decades. In 1993, they added 1,700 acres of their holdings to Fahnestock State Park while preserving and creating a 250-acre campus called Glynwood, dedicated to conservation and community stewardship. This family’s long-view commitment to the future health of our region continues to make our mission possible.
We humbly acknowledge that this property is located on the unceded ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape people — or Lenapehoking. For thousands of years, the Hudson Valley was a region rich with Indigenous communities along the Hudson — the river that the Algonquin-speaking Munsee and Mohican nations called Mahicannituck, or “the river that flows both ways.” Today — after being uprooted multiple times — the Munsee Lenape people are located across the continent and are known as the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe in Oklahoma, the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown and the Munsee-Delaware First Nation in Canada, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Wisconsin.