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In this 1926 photograph, one of William Land Park’s two duck ponds – originally part of primeval floodplain sloughs – rests amidst several recently planted trees. Between 1922 and 1927, more than 3,000 trees and 5,000 shrubs were planted in the new park. It was also the city’s intention to model the park after San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, an urban realm of nooks and groves. Arizona Ash, Tulip, Linden, Live Oak and Siberian Elm are just a few of the various types of trees that were planted to accomplish as much. The city also enlisted private sources for the population of trees. In 1924, the Daughters of the American Revolution were granted 1.12 acres to plant their own grove which included one tree from the original thirteen states, including an elm propagated from an elm under which George Washington took command of the Continental Army in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1776. Also, a year later, the United Spanish War Veterans planted a memorial grove to honor American fallen from the Spanish American War. Located near Land Park Drive and Thirteenth Avenue, in the center of the grove is a piece of the U.S.S. Maine.
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