Underhill Park - Mays Landing (Hamilton Twp.), NJ
N 39° 27.137 W 074° 43.616
18S E 523494 N 4367004
An entire, beautiful park in the center of this old town dedicated to a single citizen. The park is also sometimes known as Veterans Park.
Waymark Code: WMARRW
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 02/19/2011
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The centerpiece of this park is a beautiful fountain in the dead center. There are several paths angling off to the ends of the park which is a rectangle. The paths go up and down and on the angles as well making triangles out of the park.
I found several war memorials, realistic object sculptures, millennium stuff, a time capsule and a few N.J. historic markers. There are a few benches here and there to sit. Parking is street side. If you have ever seen Back to the Future, and remember the town from part I when Marty goes back in time, then you will understand what this town looks like and of what it is reminiscent.
The aforementioned fountain is located in the middle of Veterans Park in the center of town. The fountain has a beautiful female sculpture at the top and neat little frogs on the coping which surrounds this circular water feature. There is a medium sized granite marker which doubles as a water fountain at the western end and another as well which have two different inscriptions. The first inscription reads:
In Memory of
John W.
Underhill
Negro Citizen
and
Public Benefactor
Years of his life were
spent near this park and
the school to which he be-
queathed the savings of a
lifetime - that the park be
improved and beautified
to promote the health
and education of
our youth.
The other plaque reads:
John W.
Underhill
Fountain
Erected in 1932 by
the township committee
of Hamilton Township
in grateful recognition
of his generous bequests
to Mays Landing