Yankee Park
About the Park
The group shelter
includes restrooms and juice machines. Two sand volleyball courts, three
tennis courts, and a
playground are located close to the shelter. To the north, on the other side of a line of
trees, is an open field that includes baseball diamonds, soccer
fields and football practice areas. A nature trail leads through the wooded
area in the southeast quadrant. One
hundred and eleven flowering crabapple trees line the north
and east borders.
Features
- Baseball Diamonds (5)
- Drinking Fountain
- Grill
- Parking Lot
- Picnic Shelter
- Play Equipment
- Restrooms (closed December-February)
- Sand Volleyball
- Soccer Fields
- Tennis Courts (3)
History
As the newly formed Park
District was proceeding with the acquisition of its
first 4 neighborhood park sites, it was also watching
development between Yankee Street and McEwen Road, south
of Alex-Bell Road and north of Centerville-Miamisburg
Road. A community park was desired as a home to the
Washington Baseball League and others for their games.
In 1964, the Park District purchased an 18-acre parcel,
the south portion of today's park, that would be part of
a 30-acre school-park complex that was to be developed
jointly by the Park District and the School Board. The
School Board purchased 10 acres and held it until their
plans changed. They passed it to the Park District in
1983. Seven plus acres was added to the northeast side
of the park in 1969.
Note: History courtesy of Pat
Aldrich,
Centerville-Washington Township Historical
Society
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