Courtesy of Bpl/Leventhal Map Center

Wood Island Park is added to the Boston Park system.

1891

Designed by Charles Olmsted, it subsequently includes a beach, tennis courts, a track, picnic areas, and a municipal building and bathhouse designed by Sturgis & Cabot, and is completed in 1895. It is subsequently renamed World War Memorial Park. A portion of the park is taken for construction of an airport in 1922, and the remainder for expansion of the airport in 1969 [1968].

Sources
  • Vrabel, Jim
  • Boston Landmarks Commission
  • Fifty Years of Boston
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