herbajones
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Does anyone know what the easiest way to find the age of city parks. I emailed the city parks dept. asking and never got a reply.
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Opening Years For Old City Parks
- Thread starter herbajones
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I went by the local park commissions office and they gave me a spread sheet that listed each park, when they were purchased or donated, when they opened, how much the city paid, actual acreage of each park and how much the city paid for any improvements. I also found the similar info on the net for the city of New Orleans. Good luck!
RandyNorthridgeca
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I use to use a real estate site to find the oldest homes for sale. They ask you how old of home your looking for and I'd start with the 1800's. Once I got a hit. I'd put the address in google satellite maps and then look for any park close by. Doesn't tell you if the park is the same age but you can bet it's close to the age of the houses in the area. Just an idea that might work for you. 
Just bear in mind, that even if a city did give you a date, that may only be the date that the city annexed out to that part of the city, to incorporate into the city limits, as cities grow. I've seen some parks that have a supposed inception date, but when you look closer, that's just when the growing city expanded outwards to that area, and it became a city park. But often-time, it might have been a park, already, prior to that. Especially if it is on a main travel route, or in a particularly scenic grove, etc... Now if you're talking parks buried in the middle of residential streets, with no particular reason to have been a park prior to the city laying out streets in that area (ie.: typical flat square lots, with no particular scenic exception to anywhere else around it), then it probably dates to the age of the homes around it. And getting the average date of the older homes on those blocks, is pretty easy to guesstimate. Or even go to zillow, and I believe it even gives ages of homes there, eh?
banditicey
New member
I found my oldest coin, 1810 large cent, at a nearby local park established in the 70's, that is the 1970's!