- City:
- West Springfield, MA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Civic Facilities, Monuments and Memorials, Athletic Courts and Fields, Park Roads and Bridges
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1937
Description
W.P.A. Bulletin, 1937: “[T]he Memorial Athletic Field in the rear of King’s Highway School is rapidly nearing completion. Last April the field was rather ugly, idle land. Now there is a quarter-mile cinder track, circling a seeded oval, portable bleachers, a memorial plot of war veterans with flagpole, a driveway from the highway to the field, a football field, a drainage system and a fence enclosing the athletic field.”
Source notes
Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Dec. 15, 1937 (pg. 3) https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unitSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 6, 2017.
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Gerald M. Shean III
I believe this site was originally a farm owned by my great grandfather Michael J. Shean, who owned 9 acres on Kings Hwy from about 1860 to 1902, at least. My grandfather Gerald M. Shean was raised here. Its nice to see it is still open space. Submitted by Gerald M. Shean III