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Book

City of Kalamazoo parks

Call Numbers

  • 977.418 U821 (CEN, EAS, WSQ)
  • H 977.418 U821 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Kalamazoo, MI : Friends of Recreation, 2008.

Physical Description

75 p. : ill. (mostly photographs) ; 21 x 28 cm

Notes

Includes index.

From introduction: All profits from this publication enrich the Kalamazoo Municipal Recreation Endowment held at the Kalamazoo Community Foundation.

Contents

  • List of city parks in alphabetical order
  • Maps
  • History of parks administration
  • Proposed sales, trades, gifts, and non-park uses
  • Parks directors and superintendents
  • Bronson Park
  • Joseph B. Westnedge Park
  • West Main Park
  • Henderson Park
  • Ethel Rockwell Playground
  • Lovell Park
  • Sherwood Park
  • Rose Park
  • John Milham Park
  • Crane Park
  • Mayors' Riverfront Park
  • Red Arrow Post Athletic Field
  • Hays Park
  • Harrison Park
  • Jones Park
  • Verburg Park
  • Washington Park
  • West Douglas Neighborhood Park
  • William LaCrone Playground
  • Southside Playground
  • Spring Valley Park
  • Versluis-Dickinson Park
  • Henderson Tot Lot
  • Woods Lake
  • Axtell Park
  • Lake Park
  • Eastern Hills Golf Course
  • Emerald Buffer Strip Ball Diamond
  • Charles H. Farrell Park
  • Blanche Hull Preserve
  • Axtell Creek Park
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Park
  • Knollwood Park
  • Davis Park
  • Fray's Park
  • Fairmont Property
  • Dutton Street Park
  • James McDivitt Springmont Tot Lot
  • Krom and Prouty Tot Lot
  • Nellbert Tot Lot
  • Angling Park
  • College Park
  • Grant Park
  • The Kalamazoo Mall
  • Mountain Home Cemetery
  • Riverside Cemetery
  • Former parks and open spaces: Farmers' Market; Arcadia Festival Site; Bronson Boulevard Park; Academy Green; Parkdale Parks (Canyon, Glen Park North, Glen Park South, and Hillside Park, undeveloped and left as open spaces)
  • Egleston, Fairbanks, Lay & Lane Boulevards; Airport Park; Memorial Park (home of the now derelict tuberculois sanitarium run by the State of Michigan); Eleanor Park; Pitcher & Paterson Park; Knights of Pythias Park; Alamo Park; Muffley Park; Tot Lots; Cooper's Glen; Gateway Municipal Golf Course; City Light Plant Park; Ice Rink; Maple Glen Park; Park Nursery; Spruce Memorial Cemetery; Waterworks Parks; Wood-Upjohn House.

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