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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
KENEY PARK, HARTFORD, CONN. 
No city in the country can boast of greater pos- 
sibilities in regard to its parks than Hartford, 
Conn., and few cities, if any, can ascribe so com- 
paratively large an area of beautiful park property 
to the munificence of its citizens. The natural 
beauty of the locality, generally speaking, is very 
striking, and the design and treatment of its park 
areas have been in the hands of men of distinction 
in the professsion of landscape art. The late Charles 
L Eliot was for some time closely associated with 
the development of the system. 
Keney Park, the subject of these present notes 
and of which a general plan is given above, is the 
latest addition to the park system of Hartford, re- 
cently opened to the public. It is the outcome of 
the munificence of the late Henry Keney, who died 
Nov. 15, 1894, who by the terms of his will be- 
queathed a great fund to be expended in establish- 
ing and maintaining a public park. This fund was 
placed in the hands of trustees until such time as 
the grounds were in a condition to be turned over 
to the city for park use. 
It comprises some 522 acres of very diversified 
land, traversed at present by over 8 miles of roads 
and 16 % miles of paths. It lies in the northern 
section of the city, miles from the City Hall to 
the Sigourney circle entrance (lower left hand corner 
on above plan) and 3 miles from the City Hall to 
the Windsor avenue entrance, at the extreme right 
on the plan. 
Entering the park at Woodland circle, a short 
distance through Woodland by driveway or path 
brings one to a beautiful tract of upland and mead- 
ow, 167 acres in extent, bounded by woods and 
parkways. Near the south end of this area is 
Turtle Pond, the largest body of water in the park. 
About this area are some very attractive features, 
including the farmstead, where a small farm with 
dairy is carried on, and near by the Wading Pool 
and Little Folks’ Lawn. Other attractive and sug- 
gestive details may be discovered on the plan. 
This area forms, as it were, one section of the park, 
separated from what might be termed the middle 
section by Vine street, which traverses it. 
The middle section has great variety in its top- 
ography, and has the general name of Bushland. 
One of its principal features is the nursery for forest 
trees and shrubbery which has been developing for 
two years past. It now has a goodly stock of 
planting material for use when required. The drive 
through this section offers great diversity of scenery. 
It skirts along under a strip of woodland and by 
the banks of Gully Brook, which is here a whole- 
some and picturesque stream. There are some 
very attractive features in landscape effects in this 
section, which contains 69 acres, tlie major portion 
of which is forest. 
The third section of the park and the largest 
tract, is separated from Bushland by Tower avenue, 
as will be observed on the plan. Its main features 
are the Ten Mile Woods and the East Open. The 
