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Mission Park. The area of Mission Park is fourteen acres. 

 The Park is bounded by Dolores, Eighteenth, Church and 

 Twentieth streets. Nineteenth street runs through the middle 

 section. There are terraces, two tennis courts, a wading pool 

 and an athletic field. Grassy borders, shade trees, groups of 

 palms and flowering shrubs, render the grounds attractive. 



Lincoln Park. The recently acquired City Cemetery em- 

 braces 150 acres. The reservation was christened Lincoln 

 Park by the Board of Commissioners in honor of the immortal 

 Abraham Lincoln. In awakening public sentiment in support 

 of this name for the new park, representatives of the Grand 

 Army of the Republic were active and influential. The Park 

 is 3,500 feet distant from Golden Gate Park on Thirty-sixth 

 avenue. The property extends from Thirty-third to Fortieth 

 avenue on the north side, and from Thirty-eighth to Fortieth 

 avenue on the south. The Government took fifty acres of the 

 Cemetery grounds for the fortifications at Fort Miley. The 

 scheme of improvement in the mind of the Superintendent 

 contemplates a driveway overlooking Baker's Beach to con- 

 nect with the Presidio system of roadways. Magnificent views 

 of the sea, the bay, islands and mountain ranges are here pre- 

 sented. 



Mountain Lake Park, twenty acres in area, lies between 

 Seventh and Fourteenth avenues north of Lake street. The 

 Presidio Boulevard brings Mountain Lake into connection with 

 Golden Gate Park. 



Seal Rocks are under the jurisdiction of the Park Com- 

 missioners. The chief duty devolving upon the Board is to 

 prevent the killing of seals by fishermen and tourists. 



Buena Vista Park, as its name implies, commands from 

 its crest a superb view of the Coast Range of mountains from 

 Mt. Hamilton on the south to Alt. Tamalpais on the north 

 and Mt. Diablo on the east. The area of the Park is thirty- 

 six acres. Its elevation is 578 feet above tide. It is bounded 



