Here's a look of how Wellsville, Ohio's Broadway Park looked before work began, what it looked like after the trees were taken out and what it looked like a year ago with the new trees.
Most of those trees that were removed were ones from when the park was originally put in back in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Broadway Park was put in after the railroad was relocated to run along the river. Originally the park was a railroad right-of-way when the ville first got train service in the mid-1800s.
Quite a difference, huh?
ole nib
5 comments:
OK, I don't live in the 'Ville any more, so you have to indulge me on this one. Why did they take the trees out of Broadway park in the first place? It looks so bare now. Had they outgrown the space?
Interesting that your first two photos are looking down Broadway from fifth while the last is some other location. Why? Is it because there is a dead tree in the park on the downtown side of Broadway at fifth?
Many of the old trees that were taken out had probably been there since the late 1800s. They were getting to the point of being a serious safety hazard with so many of them having hollow trunks. Seems like every time we had a nasty storm one or two of them were being blown over. It was beyond time to do something about them. Back in the 1980s they were all trimmed back.
Personally I was one of the ones that liked the park without the trees. It really brightened it up and made the park look so much bigger. That preference was voted down and eventually the trees were replaced. The new trees are only in their second growing season.
There was no rhyme nor reason on the pictures I selected for this piece except to get the point across that I was trying to make.
nib
I too was one of the ones who liked the park much better without trees but the matter was not put to a vote. Trees were put in without much input from those who lived on Broadway (except for a chosen few).
I thought they had circulated a petition before they decided to go ahead with new trees. Maybe I'm wrong but that is in the back of my mind.
nib
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