Robert Moses State Park (Thousand Islands) Inc. As of 2015, the nature center is operating out of facilities at the St. Lawrence Center Mall while construction is completed on a new building at park. The new facility, financed by the New York Power Authority, will replace the former nature center that was destroyed in a March 2010 fire. A sign near the entrance of the park notes the location where the 45th parallel crosses through the park. Robert Moses State Park (Thousand Islands) Robert Moses State Park - Thousand Islands is a state park located on Barnhart Island in the Saint Lawrence River and the adjacent
Thousand Islands (Cocoa Beach) (Sw.) Willd.), blolly ("Guapira discolor" (Spreng.) Little), black ironwood ("Krugiodendron ferreum"(Vahl) Urb.), twinberry ("Myrcianthes fragrans"(Sw.) McVaugh), white indigo-berry ("Randia aculeata" L.), saffron plumb ("Sideroxylon celastrinum"(Kunth) T. D. Penn.), and wild lime ("Zanthoxylum fagara" (L.) Sarg.). Many of these plants are not found farther north than Brevard County. The state of Florida and Cocoa Beach purchased the islands north of Minutemen Causeway in 1988. Acquisition of the remaining south islands was completed by 2007. These islands are managed as the Thousand Islands Conservation Area by Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program. Efforts to acquire the remaining privately held islands began in