Wick Park walking tour Saturday

The Mahoning Valley Historical Society and CityScape will be hosting a walking tour of Wick Park this Saturday at 4:30pm and 6:30pm. I’ll be one of the tour guides for the first tour, so if we haven’t met yet, I hope you’ll come out and introduce yourself. I’d love to meet you!

What will you experience? Firstly, you’ll see beautiful homes, though we all recognize many could be in better condition. Second, you’ll see beautiful Wick Park, and I’m sure there will be some discussion about plans for its revitalization. Mainly, you’ll learn how Wick Park distinguished itself from other parks like Idora Park and Mill Creek Park. From a newspaper article in 1901:

Idora is devoted to amusements and Mill Creek is wild and picturesque, but Wick Park is filled with quietude and loveliness, and thus stands in striking contrast with the pleasure grounds in the southern part of the city.

Mill Creek Park is the second-largest municipal park in the country; second, that is, to Central Park, of course. Youngstown’s parks have another NYC connection, though, as Wick Park was landscaped by Aneurn Jones, civil engineer, landscape architect and superintendent of Brooklyn, NY parks.

There’s lots more info where that came from, and again I hope to see you out there Saturday. We’ll begin in front of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown (UUYO). View Map

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