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and master gardeners joined in to construct thirty-four unique bridges
• Author: Gary D
Included in the end matter are bios of Vaux and Olmsted
• Author and photography: Sara Cedar Miller
A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park CPITEM_101033 stone masonsIn 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space. When a citywide contest solicited plans for creating a park out of barren swampland, Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted put their heads together to create the winning design, and the hard work of making their plans a reality began. By winter, the lake opened for skating. By the next summer, the waterside woodland known as
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