The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . s park. In 1884 Honorable Edward L. Davis and Mr. Horace H. Bigelowmade a free gift to the city of about 110 acres of land bordering onLake Quinsigamond, a tract admirably adapted from its location and?divensified surface for a public ground. The community thus of Lake park. Mr. Davis gave $5,000 to improve this park, The Worcester of li 353 and later erected at his own expense a stone tower of picturesque con-struction. Fourteen acres of land included in this tract had in 1862been offered to the city as a
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . s park. In 1884 Honorable Edward L. Davis and Mr. Horace H. Bigelowmade a free gift to the city of about 110 acres of land bordering onLake Quinsigamond, a tract admirably adapted from its location and?divensified surface for a public ground. The community thus of Lake park. Mr. Davis gave $5,000 to improve this park, The Worcester of li 353 and later erected at his own expense a stone tower of picturesque con-struction. Fourteen acres of land included in this tract had in 1862been offered to the city as a gift by the Honorable Isaac Davis, and wasdeclined. The acquisition of this public ground was followed by a great awaken-ing on the subject of parks. The Park Act was accepted by an almostunanimous vote. During the next six or eight years, the city came intopossession of nine additional parks, aggregating over 200 acres, as bythe following enumeration appears: Crystal or University park, 1887, 8acres; East park, 1887, n acres; Institute park, 1887, 18acres; Cromp-. SHELTER IN INSTITUTE PARK. ton park, 1888, 13 acres; Newton hill, 1888, 60 acres; North park, 1889,40 acres; Dodge park, 1890, r 3 acres; Fairmount, small; Chandler hill,1892, 37 acres. The aggregate of all the parks in Worcester is nearly350 acres. Three of the above—Institute, Dodge and Fairmount parks-were gifts to the city by Honorable Stephen Salisbury, Thomas , Esq., and the late David S. Messinger, respectively. The fee ofEast park is in the Commonwealth. The others were purchased, and apark loan was authorized and funded. The total cost has been over$250,000, exclusive of gifts. Institute park has been improved by Mr. Salisbury largely at his ownexpense, and is much resorted to by those who drive, walk, or ride the 354 The Worcester of 1898.
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