Urban Parks: Confederate Park

[Deuce]

Still have the guys "holding down the corners" at night sometimes. Recently though there has been a drop-off in that too.

[hooplady]

Claude Nolan - of course, I knew Nimnicht didn't sound right.  Double-duh on me since one of the original owners of my house worked there in the '20's & '30's.

So in its original state it is very similar to the building across the street which has been preserved.

[fsu813]

So does anyone know if all city parks get the same budget for maitenence and clean up ? or is it based on the size of the park ?

anybody?

[Cliffs_Daughter]

So does anyone know if all city parks get the same budget for maitenence and clean up ? or is it based on the size of the park ?

anybody?

I can try to find out for you - I have 1 contact in Parks/Rec

[tufsu1]

^That's a scene that has changed.  The only homeboys hanging out there now are geese.

yeah...but the geese may be more intimidating...those things are huge!

[fsu813]

i'd be very interested in how any money allocated to the park is spent. they have a park security guard there duting the days, something most other parks don't have. i wonder if that eats up funds that would otherwise be spent elsewhere.

[Springfielder]

Personally, I'm glad there's security there and wouldn't want to see that stopped

[chris farley]

The entrance to the park shown in a photo above shows 1907 - it is that year since prior to that it was a swamp and Cypruss ponds.  The following from the the TU in 1906

Twelve two-horse teams are at work in hauling sand to the new
park site, and each wagon averages ten yards of sand each day, making
the amount of sand placed on the park site daily, about one hundred
and twenty yards.
Besides this the city carts are busily engaged in hauling clean
dry garbage to the park site which is dumped in the marsh. The
sand teams then come along and cover this with clean white sand.
The amount of dry garbage hauled to the site daily averages ninety
yards.
Five weeks ago teams started to dump garbage and sand just east
of Market Street where the marsh was very deep. This work has
progressed very rapidly and the new site presents a good sanitary
condition.
The park site has been filled in from Main Street to a point halfway
through the block east of Market Street, and within a few weeks
there will be a clean hard strip of good hard ground between Main
and Liberty Streets, which only a few months ago was only a swamp
and unfit for any purpose whatever for the general public

[stjr]

^Nice find, Chris.  Thanks for posting it.