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Mill Creek Park contains three man-made lakes, a pond and a wetland. Lake Cohasset, the oldest of Mill Creek Park's lakes, was built in 1897 and is known for its hemlocks. The name comes from the Algonquin word "Conahasset", meaning "long rocky place". [8] This 28-acre lake offers visitors a secluded place to view wildlife in their natural ...
The city's ten neighborhood parks include playgrounds, sports facilities, and picnic tables; they range in size from the 1.2-acre (0.49 ha) Library Park to the 19.75-acre (7.99 ha) Nickel Creek Park. [99] [100] The Mill Creek Sports Park is a 4.8-acre (1.9 ha) park with a multi-purpose field for baseball, softball, and youth soccer, along with ...
The Discovery Park includes approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) of the eponymous creek's watercourse as it flows downhill toward Lake Huron, but not the wetland. The creek dam and sawmill (c. 1790) were rebuilt in 1984; the sawmill was restored in part for the 2007 season. The British Workshop (c. 1820) was rebuilt around 1994 on the site of the ...
Mill Creek is a 26-mile (42 km) tributary of the Willamette River that drains a 111-square-mile (290 km 2) area of Marion County in the U.S. state of Oregon. [4] Flowing generally west from its source south of Silver Falls State Park, it passes through the cities of Aumsville, Stayton, Sublimity, and Turner before emptying into the Willamette in Salem.
In 1958, Elizabeth A. Fellows bequeathed the property to Mill Creek Park, together with funds to create a public garden on the site. She died in 1958 at the age of 96 in her home. In 1962, plans of how the garden would be designed came to fruition by Landscape Architect John L. Paolano.
Volney Rogers (December 1, 1846 – December 3, 1919) was a lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, who is known for his role in transforming Mill Creek "hollow" into one of the nation's most celebrated metropolitan parks.
Mill Creek (Bakersfield), a linear park in downtown Bakersfield, California; adjacent to the Kern Island Canal Millcreek Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah) Mill Creek chert , a type of stone from southern Illinois used extensively by the Mississippian culture
The Mill Creek Park Suspension Bridge is a bridge in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. The 1895 bridge carries Valley Drive across Mill Creek to connect the east and west sides of Mill Creek Park . Following the wishes of Volney Rogers to create fanciful park entrances, Charles Fowler of the Youngstown Bridge Co. designed the structure.