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Brackenridge Park began its life as a heavily wooded, bucolic driving park at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the next 120 years it evolved into the sprawling, multifaceted jewel San Antonians enjoy today, home to the San Antonio Zoo, the state's first public golf course, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Sunken Garden Theater, and the Witte Museum.
The park has been reinvented over and over again. People have gathered on the land it occupies, near the San Antonio River headwaters, since prehistoric times. Following the 1718 founding of the city, the land was used to channel river water into town via aqueducts; its limestone cliffs were quarried for building materials; and it was the site of a Civil War tannery, headquarters for two military camps, a plant nursery, and a racetrack.
Sections of the park have been the object of national acclaim while others have fallen into disrepair. The 343 acres that constitute San Antonio's flagship urban park today are made up of half a dozen parcels stitched together over time to create an uncommon varied landscape. Uniquely San Antonian, Brackenridge is full of romantic wooded walks, cement sculptures, and whimsical public spaces drawing tourists, locals, wildlife, and waterfowl.
Extensively researched and illustrated with some two hundred archival photographs and vintage postcards, Brackenridge: San Antonio's Acclaimed Urban Park is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of the park and how its diverse layers evolved to create one of the nation's foremost cultural gathering places.
The park has been reinvented over and over again. People have gathered on the land it occupies, near the San Antonio River headwaters, since prehistoric times. Following the 1718 founding of the city, the land was used to channel river water into town via aqueducts; its limestone cliffs were quarried for building materials; and it was the site of a Civil War tannery, headquarters for two military camps, a plant nursery, and a racetrack.
Sections of the park have been the object of national acclaim while others have fallen into disrepair. The 343 acres that constitute San Antonio's flagship urban park today are made up of half a dozen parcels stitched together over time to create an uncommon varied landscape. Uniquely San Antonian, Brackenridge is full of romantic wooded walks, cement sculptures, and whimsical public spaces drawing tourists, locals, wildlife, and waterfowl.
Extensively researched and illustrated with some two hundred archival photographs and vintage postcards, Brackenridge: San Antonio's Acclaimed Urban Park is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of the park and how its diverse layers evolved to create one of the nation's foremost cultural gathering places.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Fisher, Lewis F.
- ISBN: 9781595349668
- Condition: Used
- Publication Year: 2022
Language:
English