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Wondrous Climbing Weeds and Sky (1)
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Wood (1)
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Wood, John, Captain. (5)
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Woodland Park (3)
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Woodland Park Entry, Prairie Ave. and Twelfth St. This is the entry to the overgrown site of Woodland Park The grassy area is where a baseball diamond was located in later years. Today, trails lead east into the riverside park, and the former site of Woodland Park rides is south of the main hiking trail. At the east end of the trail, a raised oval roadbed could be the former track for horse races. This was an extensive site of amusement rides, bandstand, and concession buildings. During World War I, army troops bivouacked here. The Red Cross was housed in a park building during the war. Woodland Park is almost completely forgotten, except for a few photographs and stories from Lawrence residents. Elfriede Fischer Rowe recalls early 20th century expeditions to this park in Wonderful Old Lawrence, as well as a recreation area at Lakeview. (1)
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Woodland Park, Prairie Ave. and Twelfth St. This concrete footing was for the Daisy Dozer, a rollercoaster ride. It and several other footings are located south of the main trail, in dense undergrowth. Large masses of vinca minor, or periwinkle (above), suggest this area was landscaped in the past. Periwinkle is a domesticated plant and remains close to its original planting. The area was free of trees and brush at that time of the park, as seen in the old photographs. Gary Marshall, who lived nearby, and his cousin, Donald Knight, remember abandoned wooden buildings and rides, but these were washed away in the 1951 flood. Knight remembers the river further upstream, beyond Massachusetts St., was used for swimming, water skiing, and sunbathing in the 1940s and 1950s, and probably at the time of Woodland Park. This added to the stretch of the riverfront used for recreation. (1)
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Woodland Park, Twelfth St. and Prairie Ave. Woodland Park used to be north of Twelfth St. at Prairie Ave., east to Mount Cavalry Cemetery. The park included a half-mile race track and amusement park rides. This turn-of-the-century photograph shows throngs of people awaiting entry. This is the site of one of the most notorious events in Not Without Laughter, the fictionalized autobiography by Langston Hughes. The park advertised a free day for all city children. It recanted in the paper the next day and requested African American children to stay away. Hughes wrote of this event: In the summer a new amusement park opened in Stanton, the first of its kind in the city, with a merry-go-round, a shoot-the-shoots, a Ferris wheel, a dance-hall, and a bandstand for weekend concerts. In order to help popularize the park, which was far on the north edge of town, the Daily Leader announced, under its auspices, what was called a Free Children's Day Party open to all the readers of the paper. A corroboration of this account appeared in the Lawrence Daily Journal World of Aug. 17, 1910. The newspaper published an article announcing a city-wide free day at the park. However, it reported: The Journal knows the colored children have no desire to attend a social event of this kind and that they will not want to go. This is purely a social affair and of course everyone in town knows what that means. Hughes would have been a boy of eight at this time. (1)
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woods (1)
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Woods Near Airport (1)
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woodside (9)
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woodside, red palette (2)
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woodside, red palette, poplars (1)
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Woodson (1)
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Woodson County (2)
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Woodston, 1.7 mi W. Woodston Diversion Wildlife Area. Mixed-grass prairie along the South Fork Solomon River on the N side. (3)
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Woodward, Robert Simpson, 1849-1924. (1)
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Worden, 2.5 mi N, 1.5 mi W. Colyer Prairie; mesic, upland, tallgrass prairie hay meadow. (1)
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