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Kansas City’s Parks and Boulevards (Images of America)

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A fast-growing frontier community transformed itself into an attractive urban model of parks and boulevards. In 1893, East Coast newspapers were calling Kansas City “the filthiest in america.” The drainage of many houses emptied into gullies and cesspools. There was once no garbage collection service, and herding livestock In the course of the city was once handiest recently prohibited. In the course of the diligent efforts of a handful of recently arrived citizens, political, financial, and botanical skills were successfully applied to a nascent parks system. “Squirrel pastures,” cliffs and bluffs, ugly ravines, and shanties and slums were became a gridiron of green, with chains of parks and boulevards extending in all directions. Wherever the system penetrated well-settled localities, the policy was once to offer playgrounds, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, pools, and field houses. By the point town fathers were finished, Kansas City may just boast of 90 miles of boulevards and 2,500 acres of urban parks.

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