Brenham’s Henderson Park has been designated as a Lone Star Legacy Park.

The Texas Recreation and Park Society (TRAPS) honored town’s park with the designation on the TRAPS Annual Institute on Wednesday in School Station.

A Lone Star Legacy Park is a park that holds particular prominence in the local people and the state of Texas.  TRAPS says the designation is “one of many highest honors bestowed on a park.”

Legacy Parks should be a minimum of 50 years previous and designated as a public park.  They have to additionally meet one of many following standards:

• The property represents distinctive design and/or building.
• The park is related to historic occasions or websites.
• The park is related to occasions particular to the local people or state.
• The park is residence to distinctive pure options.

Henderson Park is certainly one of three parks in Texas to obtain the consideration within the 11^th yr of this system, the others being Givens District Park in Austin and Hermann Sq. in Houston.

Henderson Park was previously often known as North Finish Park, created by native entrepreneur and neighborhood supporter Ed Henderson throughout the Jim Crow Period.  Henderson allotted elements of his corn, cotton and pecan tree fields to create a park that would host massive occasions and a sports activities subject the place the Black neighborhood might play safely.  In 1950, Henderson deeded the park to the Metropolis of Brenham, and in 1994 town formally devoted the park in Henderson’s reminiscence.

Over the previous 11 years, 65 parks have been designated as Lone Star Legacy Parks.  TRAPS says the parks “have endured the take a look at of time and have develop into iconic to those that have visited, performed, and rested on their grounds.”

Click on right here to learn extra in regards to the historical past of Henderson Park.