Osborndale State Park

About Osborndale State Park

Osbornedale State Park is a great place for geology enthusiasts, so visit it for a hike or fishing trip, then visit the nearby Osborne Homestead Museum and relax with a picnic. Entering the park along the red path, you will first come across exposed metamorphic rocks and then a variety of different types of rocks that have been uncovered in the parks. Within the boundaries of the National Park there are also geological folds, quarries and abandoned mines.

Shale by definition contains a high proportion of platinum minerals or oblong minerals such as iron, nickel, copper and zinc. The high proportion of these plates and minerals allows slate to split easily into thin flakes and plates.

The slate deposits of the Carrington Pond members are covered with multi-layered grey, rusty and weathered slate. The slate pits contain a large number of folds - ups or folds in the rock surface.

These folds are caused by stress and stress that bends and deforms the rock. This happens when rocks are buried deep underground, where they experience high heat and pressure for long periods of time.

The mined area consists of dark grey gneiss containing biotite, quartz and feldspar, similar to the Carrington Pond Shale. The red path below comes from the quarry, and the Harrison GneISS shows an extended fold (Figure 2), similar in size and shape to the Carrington Pond Shales.

The quarry was once active and still shows traces of mining, but no signs of mining. Gneiss (pronounced "beautiful") is a highly metamorphic rock that has been subjected to intense heat and pressure during the formation process. The separation of light and dark minerals makes it easy to recognize and gives it a banded texture. It usually consists of two types of mineral, biotite (as opposed to platy) and feldspar.

Further down the red path there is an abrupt change in geology, and the transition type of rock is a dyke that is the result of cutting through the penetrating rock.

Osbornedale State Park Levee is a feeder levee that helped feed the great lava flow of the Hartford Basin 200 million years ago. These special dikes consist of gneiss, a fine-grained, combustible rock that cools rapidly below the surface. Figure: There are two types of rock: basalt, which is very dark, and gneiss, which is gray, both in the red path.

The basalt dikes are almost 100 feet wide in some areas, some as far as the top, and following the path up the hill you come across a large pegmatite rock. When crossing the dike and stone wall path, one reaches a gneiss spur indicating that one has left the area of the basalt dike.

Pegmatite is a combustible rock consisting of molten rock buried deep below the surface. By isolating the molten rocks far below the surface, it cools down, making the crystals very large.

Pegmatite is defined as a grain with a diameter of more than 1 cm and contains feldspar, quartz and biotite. Pegmatites and traps are of great interest to mineral collectors because they can contain a variety of rare minerals. Some pegmatite outcrops, however, do not contain any of the rarest minerals, but some do, particularly in the form of quartz and quartzite, as well as other minerals such as gold and silver.

Osbornedale State Park is located on the western edge of the Osborneldale River in the city of Osborne, New York. The land was once a lush wooded hunting ground, but the first permanent settlers arrived in the late 1650s. Indian territory, into which the fur trader John Wakeman (1642) moved as one of the first humans of European descent.

The land was gradually bought by the Paugussetts for clothing and cooking utensils and finally for the use of the settlers as hunting grounds.

The new settlers cleared the land for agriculture and used its location on the Housatonic and Naugatuck rivers to develop the area into a trading port that once competed with the port of New Haven. The name of the settlement, originally called Paugussett, was changed to Derby, and silver was mined, although it was never commercially successful. Under the European concept, Indians sold the same property, even though their culture did not embody it.

In addition, some of the spring water bottling plants are part of the park today, and some date back to the early 19th century.

It was owned by the prominent Osborne family and converted into a state park in 1956 under the auspices of the US Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Frances Osborne Kellogg has been very successful in her career as the founder of her family's cereal business. Kellogg's When her father died in 1907, she took over the family business and was responsible for founding the world's first grain warehouse in Chicago. It was a courageous step for a woman to take over and sell the family business in the first half of this century, but it was the start of a long and successful career for her.

In keeping with the principle that land should always be bought and never sold, Ms. Kellogg gradually acquired numerous separate farms that now include Osbornedale State Park and Basset Family Farm in Lake County, Illinois. One of these is the award-winning 2,000-acre farm owned by the family's daughter, Mary Ann, and her husband, John. The other farm the Basset family has bought is a dairy farm run by their son-in-law, George Bassett Jr. and his family. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg's own and operate a dairy farm on the other side of Lake Michigan, with a total of 4,200 acres of land and a population of about 3,300 cows.

The farm claims the top spot in its fields for the highest yield of corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, barley and oats in the state.

Most of the trails start and end at the rest area, but some trails are marked with nature trails created by the Corps for the Protection of Minors, such as this one.

A comprehensive pathway system is in place, voluntarily supported by the Connecticut Forest Park Association. This trail leads past the summit and Lake Louise to the main entrance of the National Park at the end of the trail.

Osbornedale State Park is just across from Derby High School, take Exit 17 and turn left at the traffic light on Division Street. At the end of the ramp, turn left, turn right into Division and then left onto the road to the main entrance of Osborneale National Park, south of Derby.

Osbornedale State Park is directly across from Derby High School, take Exit 18 on Route 8 North, turn left at the end of the ramp and turn right on Division.