Carvers Creek STATE PARK
Activities
The park won the
Prescribed Burner
of the Year Award
for their outstanding
environmental
management.
Great place for birding:
blue grosbeaks, pine and
Blackburnian warblers and
Savannah sparrows can be
spotted in the park.
The park includes
Long Valley Farm,
which was once a
winter getaway for
James Stillman
Rockefeller.
GPS: 35.197026, -78.976785
James
Stillman
Rockefeller
Carvers Creek State Park
2505 Long Valley Farm Road
Springlake, NC 28390
910-436-4681
carvers.creek@ncparks.gov
■■Acquired Long Valley
Farm in 1937
Fun Facts
■■ Appeared on the cover of
Time Magazine in 1924
■■
■■ Long Valley Farm is on the National Register of
Historic Places.
Grandson of William Rockefeller, one of
the founders of Standard Oil of Ohio
■■
Was instrumental in the creation of the
bank now known as Citigroup
■■ Upon his death in 2004, Rockefeller donated
Long Valley Farm to The Nature Conservancy.
■■
Served as the director for Pan
American World Airways, Northern
Pacific Railway, National Cash Register
and Monsanto
■■
Won a gold medal in rowing at the
1924 Summer Olympics
■■
Married Nancy Carnegie, who was the
grandniece of Andrew Carnegie
■■
Died at the age of 102 and was
America’s oldest living Olympic
champion at the time
■■ The park was established in 2005.
■■ The 1,420-acre farm was donated to N.C. State
Parks by The Nature Conservancy in 2010.
■■ The Rockefeller house was completed in 1938.
All eight species
of woodpeckers
found in North
Carolina can be
spotted in the
park forests,
including
the federally
endangered
red-cockaded
woodpecker.
A major
flood in 2016
damaged the
dam, drying out
the scenic 100-acre
millpond.
Diverse habitats can be found in the park,
including meadows of wildflowers and
longleaf pine forests.
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