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tree growth, of evergreens and oaks, of 
birches, maples, chestnuts, hickories, dog¬ 
woods and others, is mature and sturdy 
everywhere. In short, there has been little 
effort to formalize the rough natural attract¬ 
iveness of this rugged region. The wild 
freedom of the mountainside has been 
allowed, and properly, to set the keynote. 
Well-kept roads are shaded by interlacing 
boughs that grow as they will. 
The main entrance from Valley Road is at 
the head of Park Avenue, a wide street that 
connects the Oranges and Newark, forming 
a link, on the one hand, between Llewellyn 
Park, with its two large neighboring tracts, 
including the Eagle Rock Reservation, set 
aside by the Essex County Park Commission, 
and, on the other hand, the handsome Branch 
Brook Park in the northern part of Newark. 
The two former parks, though still provided 
only with service roads, have large possibilities, 
and it is to be hoped that some arrangement 
for coordinating them with Llewellyn Park, as 
units in a landscape system, may yet be made. 
A small cylindrical stone lodge stands guard 
at the southeastern entrance, at the left of 
THE MEMORIAL TO LLEWELLYN HASKELL 
Launt Thompson, Sculptor. The Pedestal by Stanford White. 
which the beautiful lines of its pedestal con¬ 
cealed by the overgrown hedge, is a portrait 
bust of Llewellyn S. Haskell, with this in¬ 
scription : “ Erected in honor of the founder 
of Lewellyn Park, M DCCCLXXX.” Has¬ 
kell had died nine years before, and the 
residents subscribed for this memorial. The 
sculptor was Launt Thompson, and this is a 
good example of his art. The architect of 
the pedestal, with its swelling lines, was 
Stanford White. By going behind the 
hedge, one gets the excellent view of the 
monument seen in the photograph. 
The property included in the Ramble, 
with its entrance and roadways, was placed 
by Mr. Haskell in the hands of three trus¬ 
tees, to administer for the Llewellyn Park 
Association. Before it could be absolutely 
made over to the association, however, Mr. 
Haskell became financially embarrassed by 
the panic of 1857. He was compelled to 
mortgage not only his private holdings in 
the park, but even to borrow money upon 
the precious strip he had designated as the 
Ramble. The panic leaving him poorer 
than it had found him, he was able to redeem 
only a portion of these properties, and cer¬ 
tain plots were bought under foreclosure by 
men already interested in the park. Upon 
the Ramble the mortgage was lifted by sev¬ 
eral men of public spirit, who were much at¬ 
tached to the place ; and the strip, which, as 
they realized, was the key to the park, was 
then turned over to the three original trus¬ 
tees of the park association, T. B. Merrick, 
Edwin C. Burt, and Augustus O. Moore. 
They were chosen to serve for life, no new 
members of the board being elected until 
two should die or retire. Other trustees of 
the park have been D. A. Heald, D. A. 
Wallace and David E. Green. 
From the beginning, an appropriation was 
made to maintain all the roads, together with 
the property owned in common by all the 
residents of the park. The constitution of 
the Llewellyn Park Association limited the 
maximum annual charge or tax upon the 
land to ten dollars per acre. That is, it pro¬ 
vided that the owner of six and a-quarter 
acres of ground should pay not more than 
$62.50 a year as his share of the expenses of 
community life, and should have, moreover, 
six and a-quarter votes at the yearly meeting 
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