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Carondelet Park, established in 1875, is the third largest park in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. The park contains nearly 180 acres (0.73 km 2 ) [ 1 ] and is located in the southeastern portion of the city, just west of Interstate 55 , and is accessible at the Loughborough Avenue exit.
The city of St. Louis owns and maintains more than one hundred parks, ranging in size from the 1,371 acres (5.5 km 2) of Forest Park to less the than 1-acre (4,000 m 2) of Aboussie Park. Parks are administered by the city of St. Louis Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry, the National Park Service, or a separate private board, such as ...
Carondelet / k ə ˈ r ɒ n d ə l ɛ t / is a neighborhood in the extreme southeastern part of St. Louis, Missouri. It was incorporated as an independent city in 1851 and was annexed by the City of St. Louis in 1870. The neighborhood had a population of 7,734 people as of the 2020 Census. [2]
Carondelet Park in St. Louis; Carondelet Canal and Carondelet Street in New Orleans, Louisiana; Carondelet Reef in the Phoenix Islands in the Pacific Ocean; Carondelet High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Concord, California; Palacio de Carondelet (the presidential palace) in the main square (Plaza de la Independencia) in Quito, Ecuador
The park was dedicated on October 9, 1909. [8] All of the former fair structures and zoo buildings were removed except the bear pits of the old zoo and the amphitheater. In 1912, the amphitheater was removed and replaced by the city's first municipal swimming pool, then said to be the world's largest. [9]
Planning for the RecPlex began in 1998. WisPark donated $4 million for its construction, after previously providing $1.6 million to construct Prairie Springs Park. [3] Construction began with a groundbreaking ceremony on October 12, 1999, and the RecPlex opened almost a year later, on October 1, 2000. [2]
Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area is a regional park located in Fremont, California that is part of the East Bay Regional Parks system. Before being converted into a park, the site was used as a gravel quarry .
[7] [8] Sports coach Benny Lefebvre served as a playground supervisor for the park in the 1930s. [9] In 1998, the pool at the Center was renamed to the Celes King III Swimming Pool, honoring the businessman. [10] In 2007 presidential candidate Barack Obama held a rally at the Rancho Cienega Recreation Center in the beginning of his campaign. [11]