•Big Creek•
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer, No. 120, May 10, 1895, Part 2 (Special Section), p.4
The people of Brooklyn and the adjacent territory have a park, large in extent and so situated that it can be transformed in a beauty spot. Last year the board of park commissioners purchased eighty-one acres of land just west of the viaduct leading to South Brooklyn. The cost was $19,466, which is very low when it is considered that Edgewater park, only eight acres larger in extent, cost over $200,000.
Brooklyn Park is in the valley of Big creek, and therefore presents many natural advantages in the way of location and diversity of character. As a point of the chain around the city it rests in a very convenient spot to be located at some future time with Edgewater park, probably along Linndale road, Ridge road, Dension avenue and Wellington avenue. On the east side it may also be connected with the Newburg park.
The territory is embraced between high and almost precipitous ravines, and presents a pleasing diversity of level grounds, ravines, small hills and streams of running water. There are several lesser rivulets flowing into Big creek through little valleys of their own, and the entire tract is admirably suited for being converted into a public pleasure ground. At the southern end of the Brooklyn viaduct has been purchased ground for an entrance to the park, which will wind its way with easy grade and gentle slope around and down the hillside to the level below. Negotiations are in progress for land for an entrance to the park from Linndale road.