sentences:  Sherwood Island is numbered as Connecticut's first state park because state purchase of land at the site began in 1914.The park is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.In the 1640s, several colonists from the Town of Fairfield, who came to be known as the "Bankside Farmers," settled in the area that included Fox Island, which was later renamed Sherwood Island, administering the island in common.