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Mill Creek Park
Mill Creek Park

Mill Creek Park is a metropolitan park located in Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Mahoning County. Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads It is the second largest metropolitan park in the United States after Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Fairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə

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History

The park was founded in 1891 due to the "untiring efforts of Youngstown attorney Volney Rogers". Volney Rogers ( December 1, 1846 &ndash December 3, 1919) was a lawyer in Youngstown Ohio, United States, who is [1] Rogers secured options on much of the land and was able to purchase large tracks of it. This was no small task given that he was compelled to deal with more than 90 landowners. [2] Once the land was secured, Rogers framed and promoted what he called the "Township Park Improvement Law. " Upon the law's passage, Rogers turned over all of the land he had secured for park purposes. [2] Rogers had the area declared a park by the state legislature. In the United States of America, a state legislature is a generic term referring to the legislative body of any of the country's 50 states. It officially opened in 1893. [3]

Rogers later enlisted the help of his brother Bruce, who had studied landscape architecture; and Bruce Rogers became the first Mill Creek Park superintendent. Landscape architecture involves the investigation and designed response to the landscape [4] Earlier, the project benefited from the contributions of well-known landscape architect Charles Eliot, and Mill Creek Park is regarded as one of his notable works. Charles Eliot ( November 1, 1859 &ndash March 25, 1897) was a leading American Landscape architect, whose career was cut [5]

The same year that the park opened, the Mahoning County commissioners issued bonds to pay for the parkland, and Rogers purchased $25,000 of them, with the understanding that they would be the last ones paid. Ironically, the financial panic of 1893 facilitated the park's development. The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893 As a later newspaper account observed: "Unemployed men found work there. A second bond issue paid for their wages. The men cut trails, established drives, restored Pioneer Pavilion (a renovated factory building that was the oldest structure in the park) and built Lake Cohasset Dam". [4]

Today

Mill Creek Park now stretches from the near west side of Youngstown to the southern borders of the city and neighboring Boardman township. Boardman is a Census-designated place (CDP in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States, just south of Youngstown. The park "encompasses approximately 2,600 acres (10. 5 km²), 20 mi (32 km) of drives, and 15 mi (24 km) of foot trails"[1] as well as a variety of bridges, ponds, streams, well-tended gardens, and waterfalls.

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Mill Creek Park Homepage. Mill Creek or Millcreek may refer to Communities Mill Creek California, a town in Tehama County Mill Creek Hundred Historic Mill Creek State Park is a State park, nature preserve and historic site in the U Mill Creek Metroparks. Retrieved on 2007-11-09. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all
  2. ^ a b "Builders of Youngstown: Volney Rogers", The Youngstown Daily Vindicator, April 7, 1933. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.  
  3. ^ Mill Creek Park History. Mahoning Valley Historical Society. Retrieved on 2007-11-09. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all
  4. ^ a b The Youngstown Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio, December 1, 1946
  5. ^ The Olmsted Legacy. Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Olmsted. org. Retrieved on 2007-11-09. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all

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