sentences:  He concluded that Sherwood Island was the only suitable site in Fairfield County.At that time, the land had many owners.Acting for the state, Westport farmer and public citizen William H. Burr Jr., who led the fight to create the park, bought two small parcels in 1914, including a strip of beachfront, giving Sherwood Island its designation as Connecticut’s first state park, although it took another two decades for the park to be widely used.