- City:
- Hagerstown, MD
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Playgrounds
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
Pangborn Park was one of 8,000 parks built, repaired, or improved by the WPA. Today, visitors to Pangborn Park can enjoy tennis courts, a horseshoe court, an athletic field, a picnic shelter, a children’s playground, and an artificial pond.
Source notes
WPA photograph collection, University of Maryland College Park Archives. https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/mdpa/id/49/rec/18 https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/mdpa/id/47/rec/19Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on April 15, 2014.
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Cindy Nelson
The “small building” featured in one of the photos was utilized in the winter time for ice skaters to come in and get warm by a fire in the fireplace. The lake at Pangborn Park was used for ice skating in the winter time – back in winters that were much colder than what they are now. The lake would freeze solid.