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  2. Columbus Recreation and Parks Department - Wikipedia

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    The City Recreation Department was founded on July 15, 1910, and opened up five recreation centers in the following two years. [3] [7] In 1920, the first municipal golf course was established and a day camp in 1927. [6] The Maryland Pool was built by The Columbus Dispatch in 1929, later gifting it to the city to make it the city's first pool ...

  3. Near East Side (Columbus, Ohio) - Wikipedia

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    Located on Atcheson St, this park was formerly named Maryland Park, which opened in 1921. The first public swimming pool was built here in 1929 thanks to donations from The Columbus Dispatch. The park was dedicated to "Eddie" Saunders, a local African American radio personality, in 1989 and thusly renamed.

  4. Forest Park (Columbus, Ohio) - Wikipedia

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    The community of Forest Park consists of almost 2900 [1] private residential properties (single-family homes and duplexes), plus apartments, condominiums, commercial properties, city-owned parks and schools, in approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) of the Northland area of northeast Columbus, Ohio. These properties adjoin a total of 132 ...

  5. Zoombezi Bay - Wikipedia

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    Zoombezi Bay (/ z uː m ˌ b iː z i ˈ b eɪ /) is a 22.7-acre (9.2 ha) water park owned by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium near Powell, Ohio just north of Columbus.The park sits on the site of the former Wyandot Lake Adventure Park, [1] which was purchased by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in 2006.

  6. Cincinnati's public pools are open! See hours, daily rates here

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    As of June 10, all 24 of Cincinnati's city-owned swimming pools are open to the public. Whether you're in Cincinnati proper or Northern Kentucky , there's somewhere to make a splash this summer.

  7. Scioto Audubon Metro Park - Wikipedia

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    Scioto Audubon Metro Park is a public park and nature preserve in Columbus, Ohio. The park is managed by the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks and is part of the Scioto Mile network of parks and trails around Downtown Columbus. The park features numerous trails, wetlands, rock climbing, volleyball and bocce courts, and numerous other ...

  8. Spectacular Outdoor Public Pools in All 50 States

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    Minnesota : The Como Regional Park Pool. City: St. Paul. The Como Regional Park Pool is like a water park with public pool prices. In addition to swimming lessons and water aerobics classes ...

  9. Diversity in swimming - Wikipedia

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    When swimming first became popular in America, pools were segregated by gender and class, not race. At the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, municipal pools were built in the north mainly for poor, urban, working-class Americans and used as bathing sites. [1]