10th tee, Keney Park golf course, Hartford, Memorial Day

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:1070

Title

10th tee, Keney Park golf course, Hartford, Memorial Day

Origin Information

Date Created	1937

Parent Item

Connecticut History Illustrated

Hartford City Parks Collection

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

View of a woman lining of a shot on the tenth tee of the Keney Park golf course. Another woman can be seen behind her, also holding a golf club. Men and women are visible, some standing and some sitting on benches.

Genre

Subject

Geographic Subject

Keney Park (Hartford, Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph

Held By

Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library

Use and Reproduction

Copyright restrictions may apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library.

Note

Note Type	source note
Note	City Parks Collection

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Environment

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	related project: HHC IMLS Keney Park

Note

The first nine holes of the golf course were finished in 1927, and the remaining holes in 1930. Designed by the firm founded by Frederick Law Olmsted, and encompassing the Ten Mile Woods the famed landscape architect knew as a boy, Keney Park is the largest park in Hartford, constituting 584 acres in the north end of the city and an additional 110 acres in Windsor. The bulk of the land was a gift from Henry Keney, whose family had a grocery business at the corner of Main Street and Albany Avenue. The park opened in 1896, entrusted to a group of trustees. It was turned over to the city in 1924.

Local Identifier

Parks B30, keney070

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10th tee, Keney Park golf course, Hartford, Memorial Day

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