Parks in Omaha
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Public parks have been integral to the city of Omaha since its founding in 1856. Most parks in Omaha are governed by the City of Omaha Parks and Recreation Department.
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[edit] History
In 1854 Alfred D. Jones drew four parks on the original map of Omaha City. They were called Jefferson Square; Washington Park, which is where the Paxton Block currently sits at North 16th and Farnam Streets; Capitol Square, where Central High School is now located, and an unnamed tract overlooking the river with Davenport Street on the north, Jackson Street on the south, North 8th on the east and North 9th Street on the west.
Hanscom Park became Omaha's first park. Miller, Fontenelle, Elmwood and Riverview were Omaha's largest parks in 1920. Levi Carter Park was its largest, at 220 acres. Other parks in the system that year were Bemis, Deer, Kountze Park, Curtis Turner, Harold Gifford, Mercer, Jefferson Square, Hixenbaugh, Burt playground, Bluff View, Spring Lake, Highland, McKinley, Clear View and Morton.
Omaha's boulevard system was designed to be part of the parks system in 1889 by renowned landscape architect Horace Cleveland.
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- City of Omaha Board of Park Commissioners. (1912) Annual Report. City of Omaha. p 4.
- Morton, J.S. and Watkins, A. "Chapter XXXV: Greater Omaha," History of Nebraska: From the Earliest Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi Region. Lincoln, NE: Western Publishing and Engraving Company. p. 831.
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