Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park

Friends of Treman Annual Report, 2023-2024

12/20/2024

The Board of Trustees of the Friends of Robert H. Treman’s State Park wish you happy holidays during these final days of 2024.
Check out our illustrated, finalized version from the past year, from April 2023 through March 2024. (Our fiscal year corresponds to that of NY State.)
See all the great things we accomplished! Just click on the pdf file link located below the short video clip to download the report. (The report includes a link to a five minute video of activities on that day, I Love My Park Day.)

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The Rose Wheel

11/16/2024

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What is that, where is it, and what did it do?
Well, it was one of the most important parts of Treman’s Mill, or The Old Mill as the sign on that big historic building in the Upper Park labels it.
It’s a water turbine, that harnessed power for the machinery of the entire grist mill.

The timber frame with its big bolts are what’s left of a big, wooden, boxy pipe, called a sluice or flume, that channeled water from the mill pond (blown out by a flood in 1935) above Mill Falls.

The rose wheel connected to a shaft that turned an iron gear that turned the wooden Great Spur Wheel that powered the drive shaft for the entire mill.

The mill museum will close for the winter, but you can still see the rose wheel outside, under the porch.

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“Great Oaks of Taughannock”

11/2/2023

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Most of this takes place at Robert H. Treman State Park.
“Great Oaks of Taughannock,” remembering naturalist Becca Harber. Online anytime at walkinthepark.tv and on Ithaca cable TV channel 13, at 9 p.m. Thursday November 2, at 3 p.m. Friday, at 9 a.m.and 3 p.m Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday. This cablecast schedule repeats next week.

This encore episode of Walk in the Park (#258) honors naturalist and song writer Becca Harber of Newfield, NY, who passed away a year ago. Becca was well-known and loved throughput the Ithaca community. We’ll show illustrated videos of Becca singing three of her original songs about her love of our natural world, recorded in two of our local state parks.
In the second half of the show, Sherene Baugher of the Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park tells us of Henrietta Wickham who opened the way for visitors to Lucifer Falls more than sixty years before her work inspired Robert Treman to create the park.
Walk in the Park is a non-commercial public access TV series produced in Ithaca NY by Owl Gorge Productions, Owlgorge.com.

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Who Was Robert H. Treman?

9/28/2023

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Online anytime and on Ithaca TV cable channel 13 at 9 p.m. Thursday September 28, at 3 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m. Saturday. Online now via https://www.fingerlakes.org/events/who-was-robert-h-treman. Episode 259 of Walk in the Park. The cablecast schedule repeats next week.
Over the past century, millions of people have visited Robert H. Treman State Park in Ithaca, NY. But most may not have known who Treman was and why the park was named for him. Well that is changing. On September 23, 2023, the Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park, along with park staff and officials, and members of the Treman family, unveiled an outdoor interpretive sign answering this very question. See this sign (at the end of the video) and hear what they had to say about the remarkable park legacy of Robert H. Treman.

Robert H. Treman was a prominent Ithaca businessman and banker who loved our natural surroundings in the Finger Lakes. In 1920, he and his wife Laura donated nearly 400 acres of land surrounding Enfield Glen, one of the spectacular gorges surrounding Ithaca, to the people of the State of New York for the purpose of creating Enfield Glen State Park. Treman went on to lead in the creation of many more parks in the region. Following his death in 1937, Enfield Glen was renamed in his honor.

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Old Mill roof replacement nears completion!

6/24/2023

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Work on replacing the roof of the “Old Mill,” or “Treman’s Mill,” has proceeded rapidly and park manager Jim Brophy says it is at least 95% complete!
The Friends of Treman secured the grant funds that are the financial foundation for this project. It’s very exciting that the mill will be protected from the elements for many years to come now. The mill museum is open on weekends and we expect it to be open daily when work is complete.
The Civilian Conservation Camp Museum attached to the mill is closed at present for some structural repairs.
The mill roof replacement project was supported with funding from the NYS Park and Trail Partnership Grants and New York’s Environmental Protection Fund. Park and Trail Partnership Grants are administered by Parks & Trails New York, in partnership with the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

The original "Treman Show" is now showing.

In 2007, the Friends produced a video called “The Treman Show” all about the park, its history, natural history, and park features. As an episode of the TV series, Walk in the Park, the Treman Show won the top award for a locally produced public access television program in Ithaca in 2008. In 2020, producer Tony Ingraham repackaged the Treman Show with some additional information at the end and it has been shown on online and on Ithaca cable channel 13 each year. And now it is being cablecast again on channel 13, beginning next week at 9 p.m. Thursday June 29, plus 3 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m. on Saturday July 1. Or, you can watch The Treman Show online anytime!

"Exploring Robert H. Treman State Park: The Enfield Glen Experience via an interactive map!"

We are slowly adding elements to a map where you can explore features of the park with pictures, explanations, and links to more resources. Take a look at it here, and play with it. Then check back in future weeks and see what's new. We welcome comments and suggestions.

Swimming!

Swimming at Lower Falls began this weekend. The swimming area at Robert H. Treman State Park is arguably the most beautiful in the state!

Your Membership Is Important!

Membership in the Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park costs only ten dollars a year. But it can mean a lot more than that. The Friends of Treman apply for grants to help with park projects (such as the current roof replacement at the mill), and the more members we can claim, the better we look to grantor organizations. So please, if you have not renewed your membership, or you would like to join us, by all means please do. You can download our membership brochure, or copy the essential information and send it to us with your check.