RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION - Genesee County

SUBJECT TEXT DATEAustin Park (cont) Big elm in Austin Park hit by lightning. 6-24-1920Austin legacy funds released. 1-3-1921Council votes funds for playground equipment. 5-4-1921Band concert & balloon ascension for park. (Allen) 8-18-1922Comfort Allen's balloon burned and bag went up without him. 8-12-1922Council approves beautification program for. 8-31-1922Women want park to be recreation area not beauty spot. 2-8-1924Executor Austin estate asks settlement - about $30,000 available for park.Chapin onle executor of Austin estate living. 4-10-1924Austin died Oct. 3, 1914. Will read April 10, 1914?Council asks for conference on. 4-11-1924Clubs take great interest in uses proposed for park space. 4-16-1924Caouncil passes decision for use to Park Commission. 4-24-1924Park Commission confers. 5-1-1924Money from Austin estate to be released to city. 1-16-1925Baseball scoreboard being put up in southwest corner of park. 6-3-1925Money released - now $31,953.93. 7-24-1925Austin estate settlement in full - soon. Need $36,000 - take $414 fromcontingency. 7-30-1925Grandstand to be taken down at end of season to improve park - trees tobe planted. 9-15-1928Grandstand to be moved to Taggart Field at Bushville. 10-24-1928Excavation for wading pool done, ready for cement. 7-16-1929Wading pool now completed. 9-18-1929Brisbane donates $5,699 for wading pool, in addition to his early $5,000. 9-19-1929Skating on wading pool. 12-23-1929Description of park - lawns being seeded. 4-30-1930Sculpture by Bessie Vonnoh Potter, an artist friend of Mrs. Edward Washburn,a statue of a child with bird drinking from a dish in it's hand. Landscapingby Harold Olmsted. 6-19-1930Harold L. Olmsted, a Le Roy native. Buffalo address: 185 Bryant. In1916listed as an architect. In 1920 listed as a landscape artist.Died: March 19, 1972, aged 85.Bronze tablet to go on rock by wading pool. 7-2-1930Open to public on Wednesday. 6-15,19-1931Bronze plaques to mark Austin and Williams Park. 10-21-0931Park to open Wednesday (17th) Snow fence to go. Plan made severalyears ago by Harold W. Olmsted. Wading pool given by Arthur Brisbanein memory of father - Albert Brisbane. Mrs. Edward A. Atwaterpresented statue. Rock garden built by Gerald S. Wallace. Bronze figureby Bessie Potter vonnoh given in momory of Mrs. Edward Washburn'sfather - James Peabody Marsh. 6-15-1931Golf banned. 9-22-1931Bronze tablet placed in park. 10-21-1931About 1,500 attend campfire and singing program - first ever. 8-13-1936400 at campfire sing. 9-3-1936Picture: Waders. 6-24-1938Picture: Children in park. 7-1-1943Children injured by broken glass in pool. 6-28-1944City Attorney says no large structure can be built in park. City submittedproposition to buy property for $50,000 in August 1917, financed by bonds