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Shepherd Park is a neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. In the years following World War II , restrictive covenants which had prevented Jews and African Americans from purchasing homes in the neighborhood were no longer enforced, and the neighborhood became largely Jewish and African American.
Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) System. It was opened to the public on July 29, 1990. The library was named in honor of Juanita E. Thornton (December 25, 1912 – September 14, 1990), a teacher and community activist.
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Ringwood State Park is a 4,444 acres (17.98 km 2) state park in Passaic County in northeastern New Jersey, USA. The Park is located in the heart of the Ramapo Mountains in Ringwood . Its forests are part of the Northeastern coastal forests ecoregion .
On April 11, 1927, the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission acquired Shepherd Parkway as its first property for its proposed Fort Drive. The plan became a casualty of the Great Depression until 1933, when the New Deal turned most public green space to the National Park Service. The parkway was never constructed, and the land was used ...
The park features areas of regenerating native bush. [2] The Friends of Shepherds Park is a community group that have been coming together for over 30 years for native plant regeneration and maintenance in the park. Shepherds Park also hosts cricket games during the summer and is used as one of Birkenhead City Cricket Club's grounds. [3]
Their combined Shepherd Park building opened in 1960. Membership fell in the late twentieth century as Jewish families moved to the suburbs. The synagogue opened a branch composed largely of younger families in Olney, Maryland, in 1994, [4] which became the separate congregation Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah Congregation of Olney between 2002 and ...