History & Origins
Central Park was the very first major public park designed in the United States, opening in 1858, when many of your great-great-great-grandparents were alive!
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Central Park was the very first major public park designed in the United States, opening in 1858, when many of your great-great-great-grandparents were alive!
Central Park wasn’t always there — it was created by talented landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who won a design contest in 1858 with their “Greensward Plan.”