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The Great Lawn. The lawn and pond occupy the almost flat site of the rectangular, 35-acre (14 ha) Lower Reservoir, which was incorporated into the Greensward Plan for Central Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The King Jagiello Monument stands at Turtle Pond's east end, the Delacorte Theater on its west end. [1]
Turtle Pond Parkway was built in 1897, and extends southeast from the Bleakie Intersection. It is, like the Dedham Parkway, a two-lane road. It eventually skirts the southwestern edge of the reservation, passing through an intersection with Smithfield Road and Alwin Street.
The monument in 1939. The monument is sited overlooking the east end of the Turtle Pond, across from Belvedere Castle, and just southeast from the Great Lawn. [1] To the northeast is Cleopatra's Needle and beyond, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The park is located in the southwest of Boston. Its main contiguous section extends southwards from Washington Street in the West Roxbury neighborhood to Mother Brook in the Hyde Park neighborhood, with an additional 14.2 acres (5.7 ha) southwest along a roadway to Mother Brook in Dedham.
In the 1850s, Nicholas Dean, the board president of the Croton Aqueduct water distribution system, proposed that Central Park be planned around its existing receiving reservoir (known then as the Yorkville Reservoir and nowadays the site of the Great Lawn and Turtle Pond). To supplement the distribution system, a second reservoir, the Central ...
Turtle Pond is a man-made pond feature in Peachtree City, Georgia, United States. It is incorporated as part of Braelinn Country Club. Turtle Pond is a popular recreation area in the heart of Peachtree City. Accessible through the city golf cart path network, Turtle Pond offers leisure activities such as fishing, bird watching, and model yacht ...
Lake Hopatcong is the largest freshwater body in New Jersey, United States, about 4 square miles (10 km 2) in area.Located 30 miles (48 km) from the Delaware River and 40 miles (64 km) from Manhattan, New York City, the lake forms part of the border between Sussex and Morris counties in the state's northern highlands region.
Alley Pond Park is the second-largest public park in Queens, New York City, occupying 655.3 acres (265.2 ha). The park is bordered to the east by Douglaston , to the west by Bayside , to the north by Little Neck Bay , and to the south by Union Turnpike .