Worcester, Massachusetts purchases park land for public use

Worcester, Massachusetts become the first town in the country to purchase park land for public use when it secures the twenty-seven acre Elm Park. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 450.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Cultural
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    Personal
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