BOX 14 - P: Parks

BOX #14:

Parks: Lincoln Park material includes a copy of the application for classification as a Historic District; a brief history of the park; and a list and map of owners of houses surrounding the park (1978-1980s); Washington Park material includes a draft history of the area surrounding Washington Park; a letter from Jean R. Geiger to Mayor Kenneth Gibson regarding the "atrocious condition" of the park (1977); and a clipping on the park's rejuvenation (1985) Riverbank Park Centennial Celebration (2007 Souvenir Journal), Riverfront Park Newark Boat Tours flier (2012) Weequahic Park, "The Re-Opening of a Path," pamphlet [n.d.]. ; Dedication of Feldman Middleton Community Center and Carl Sharif Playground (2018). Miscellaneous material includes a memo from Douglas Eldridge to Elizabeth Del Tufo regarding re-naming Wallace Park, or some other area location, for William M. Ashby (1986); Riverbank Park newsletters (in English and Spanish, ca. 2003); the minutes of a meeting and a draft contract between the City and the Downtown Park Committee (1982-1988); an issue of the New Jersey Fair News regarding the State Fair, held at Waverly Park in Newark (1898), article "The Land The People the Future" on Olmsted and Essex County Parks etc. Trade card for "Grand Gift Festival" at Caledonian Park, August 4, 1884. Second folder includes misc. Branch Brook Park fliers brochueres and articles 1995-2014; Booklet: "Where to Go: Try Your Essex County Parks System" (c. 1970); "100 Years On the Greens at Weequahic" (Weequahic Golf Course, 2014); Clean Up Branch Brook Park Flier; "Branch Brook Park: The First County Park in America", Greensward Foundation for Friends of Branch Brook Park, includes fold out map (1995); Imagine Our Gateway, Gateway Park Proposal, Ironbound Community Corporation, (c.2011)

Items stored in Nwk Misc. Ovsz Box 3: Parks: Photo of Military Park "Wars of America" statue dedication, (1926)