Franklin Park is created.

(May) [1885] Originally West Roxbury Park, it is designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Arthur Shurcliff and located on today’s Circuit Drive. Although Olmsted’s intention was to create “A country park [to be used] exclusively with reference to the enjoyment of rural scenery,” more active recreational amenities are subsequently added, including a playground in 1889,* a golf course in 1896,* and a zoo in 1912.* Added to the Boston park system in 1884, it is renamed for Benjamin Franklin in 1885.* Franklin Park it is named the second most beautiful in the world, after a park in Berlin, in 1927.