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576: 27: 183:. As tuberculosis cases diminished, the Preventorium sponsored the Cardiac Clinic to serve underprivileged children afflicted with heart disease. In 1936, Ernest T. Paine donated 75 acres of land on the west side of Cayuga Lake, at the current Cayuga Nature Center property, "for the health and welfare of the children of Tompkins County". Construction of the 10,000 sq ft (930 m) Cayuga Preventorium Lodge on the property was completed by the 164: 227: 263:, who used it intermittently as a summer residence. In 1909, his sons left the property to the Village of Trumansburg to be used as a public park. Ownership of the forest was transferred to the Cayuga Nature Center in 2007, where it continues to be preserved and used as an educational and recreational site. 238:
on the west shore of Cayuga Lake. The CNC Lodge is heated by a biomass furnace designed and installed as a Cornell engineering student project and features exhibits combining live, mounted, and fossil specimens with interactive stations to highlight the ecology and biodiversity of the Cayuga Basin.
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CNC offers day summer and school's out day camps as well as year-round programs and classes focusing on environmental issues and natural history. Programs and classes are available for all ages and include animal encounters, and outdoor educational programs that cover survival skills, ecology, and
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leased the facility as housing for graduate students. In the 1960s, the lodge was reopened as a conference center to be used year-round. Under a new program sponsored by the State Education Department, the
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collaborated to open the Preventorium as a Nature Center in 1975. Dubbed the Cayuga Nature Center four years later, the center was incorporated as a private non-profit organization in 1981.
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geology, among other topics. CNC also offers seasonal programs on maple sugaring, making apple cider, butterflies and moths in the Butterfly Garden, and winter ecology.
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class of 2000;, a zoological collection consisting of 30 animals; a seasonal Butterfly Garden, a turtle pond; and a 120-acre campus with five miles of hiking trails.
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in 1939. The Preventorium summer camp ran until 1942, where diminishing cases of tuberculosis, competition from other summer camps, and staff reductions due to the
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The Cayuga Nature Center is a part of Ithaca’s Discovery Trail, which features the center and seven other educational institutions in the area: the
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CNC traces its history back to the Cayuga Preventorium, founded in 1914, which was a non-profit organization that provided a
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In January 2011, having experienced funding difficulties, CNC merged with the
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forced the camp to close its doors. The lodge was listed on the
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The Cayuga Nature Center is located three miles south of
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Henry A. Smith Woods is a 32-acre old-growth forest in
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Ithaca
New York
www.cayuganaturecenter.org
Ithaca Discovery Trail
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Sciencenter
Cornell Botanic Gardens
Museum of the Earth
Cayuga Nature Center
Tompkins County Public Library
The History Center
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cayuga Lake
Tompkins County, New York
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summer camp
Cayuga Lake
tuberculosis
Works Progress Administration
Second World War
National Register of Historic Places
Cornell University
Board of Cooperative Educational Services
Ithaca City School District
Paleontological Research Institution
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Taughannock Falls State Park
old-growth forest
Ithaca High School

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