Board of Park Commissioners 
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Properties Purchased During the Year 1911. 
Cost Acreage 
Burnet Woods (addition to) 11,517 62 1.75 
Bishop and Jefferson 3,515 00 .14 
Blachly Farm . 82,924 96 114. 
Burnet avenue and Reading road (addition to) 27,701 33 3. 
Camp Washington Tract (addition to) 4,148 16 3.52 
Deer Creek Common (addition to) 5,269 30 .23 
Evanston Athletic Fiekl 18,018 58 5.25 
Kirby Tract 34,256 50 168.15 
Lick Run Athletic Grounds 14,811 00 4.25 
Mohawk Playground 17,098 10 .521 
Mt. Storm Park 117,308 40 66.85 
McFarlan Woods and Eckert Tract 13,265 96 121.45 
McMicken and Walnut Playground 45,050 39 .65 
Parker's Woods 46,940 50 31.50 
Sycamore Street Playground 64,734 26 .45 
Third and Collard streets (transferred by act of 
Council) 1.50 
Vine and Hollister Park (add'f'on to) 1,554 20 .287 
Westwood Common 16,000 00 21.27 
Woodward Park (addition to) 3,015 00 .569 
Walnut Hills Playground 10,088 50 1.083 
Western and McLean Playground 3,973 12 .127 
Wulsin Tract (addition to) 3,549 71 .126 
$544,740 59 
Properties Acquired Through Annexation During 
THE Year 1911. 
Sayler Park 3.15 
College Hill Town Hall lot 4.75 
Westwood Town Hall lot .75 
Total Acreage 721.389 
The spirit with which the Board has worked and the vast 
amount of property acquired found approval in the appreciation 
that a park system had been launched or started which opened 
at once the latent disposition of some of Cincinnati's philan- 
thropic citizens to give to the city valuable property for park or 
playground purpose. 
A noble example was set by Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Ault in so 
magnanimously giving property in the eastern end of the city, 
approximately 143 acres in extent, one of the natural jewels in 
