- City:
- San Angelo, TX
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Park Roads and Bridges
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Designer:
- Albert Nealy Carlin
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Civic League Park sits on land donated by Uriah Gilliam Taylor to the San Angelo Civic League in 1904. The San Angelo City Council accepted the property as a park in 1907, and Taylor signed the deed over to the city in 1911. During the Depression, Works Progress Administration laborers improved the park based on the designs of Albert Nealy Carlin, the city’s first superintendent of parks. These improvements include a bridge and the rock work around the park. Civic League Park is still in use and is the site of one of the world’s foremost waterlily collections.
Source notes
Gosanangelo, (https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/2020/02/12/women-largely-responsible-earliest-park-developments-san-angelo/4736569002/), accessed May 2020.
Gosanangelo, (https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/2020/01/22/history-san-angelo-parks-began-santa-fe-railroad/4470653002/), accessed May 2020.
Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on May 2, 2020.
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