FIRST - City Park - Murray, UT
N 40° 39.611 W 111° 53.270
12T E 424949 N 4501414
Murray City incorporated in 1903 and in 1924, purchased 22 acres of land at this location for its First City Park.
Waymark Code: WMC7WN
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 08/05/2011
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Murray City Park has a number of Memorials throughout the park. The Memorial at this location, which acknowledges Murray Park as the City's First Park, reads:
MURRAY CITY PARK AND ROSE GARDEN
Murray City Park began in 1924 when the city purchased this tract of land on State Street from William and Sherman Freeze. Workers planted numerous trees, including sixty-five Bolleana Poplars, Eight Norway Maples, and three Sycamores. Later the same year, a Fraternal Organization, The Woodmen of the World, placed a flag pole near the front entrance and the Volunteer Fire Department donated a rock drinking fountain to create MURRAY CITY'S FIRST PARK.
In 1950, the City designated this area of Murray Park as a War Memorial Peace Garden. Mayor Clifford Hansen invited Elva Bowen, a gifted Horticulturalist who was later selected as Utah's Gardner of the Year, to design a rose garden in Memory of the losses of war and the hope that peace will prevail. The Memorial, which originally included 500 rose bushes, became known as the Rose Garden of Freedom. One of the first of its kind in the United States. The Murray Women's Club, under the direction of Lovenna S. Cook, assisted in the garden's development and evolution. by 1966 the garden had expanded to 1330 rose bushes in 45 beds.
In 2005 Mayor Daniel C. Snarr asked the Parks and Recreation Department to completely redesign the rose garden and feature newly planted rose bushes surrounding an architectural element called a pergola. the Murray Women's Club, the Murray Exchange Club and numerous volunteers from throughout the community assisted in the project. The pergola was purchased with donations from Richard and Joyce Stauffer and Desert Star Theatres' owners Michael and Alyce Todd.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Place or Location
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1924
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