These walls were constructed between the early 1920s and the mid 1960s, many of them make-work projects, a legacy of the
Dirty Thirties. They show varying methods and styles of construction which changed with the times. Some were dry laid, without mortar, while most were set in mortar. The walls employing larger rocks indicate their construction in later periods, when more and larger equipment became available to the stone masons.
The city has recently placed ten bronze plaques at strategic points throughout the city which indicate the date of construction of particular walls and the names of the stone masons who laid them. This is a wonderful way to commemorate these stone masons from yesteryear and the legacy they have left behind for future generations.
Butler Park is Trail's major ball park (as opposed to Major League Ball Park). The largest baseball park in the south-east interior of BC, it is the home of the Trail Jays of the American Legion League and where Trail native Jason Bay, 2004 National League Rookie of the year, played his first organized baseball. One will find Butler park on Columbia Avenue at Thom Street in East Trail, across the Columbia River from downtown Trail.
In 1951 a stone mason named Gugliemo Di Domenico took it upon himself to build these stone bleachers in the corner of the park behind left field for future generations to enjoy. Their being a little hard for sitting on through nine innings, people using them learned in short order to bring their own pillows and seating pads.
The plaque commemorating these bleachers is mounted on a large stone just outside the park and near the bleachers, at the corner of Thom Street and Second Avenue.
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