From the Hydraulic Park Facebook page:
Hydraulic Park is within a 2 minute walking distance to two major hotels. It sees many travelers and tourists walk by everyday. Due to the poor condition of this park, these people dont know they are walking through part of the old canal system.
Here are a couple photographs to help you mentally paint the picture:
Area where Niagara Street and Third Streets are today… back in 1920
Decades later, after canal had been filled in, a park is built on the land…
Before it was a flowerbed, it was a fountain for the community to enjoy…
Today, community members get their hands dirty in order to help bring back life to this corner…
Read more and see more photos of the continuing transformation here:
https://www.facebook.com/HydraulicPark/photos_stream
To be continued…
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