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Columbus-Belmont State Park, on the shores of the Mississippi River in Hickman County, near Columbus, Kentucky, is the site of a Confederate fortification built during the American Civil War. The site was considered by both North and South to be strategically significant in gaining and keeping control of the Mississippi River .
Columbus, Ohio has numerous municipal parks, several regional parks (part of the Metro Parks system), and privately-owned parks. The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department operates 370 parks, with a combined 13,500 acres (5,500 ha).
The Maryland Pool was built by The Columbus Dispatch in 1929, later gifting it to the city to make it the city's first pool. [7] [6] The Recreation Department took over management of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in 1951, but later gave up ownership to the Zoological Park Association, Inc., a non-profit organization, in 1970. The city continued ...
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Columbus-Belmont State Park: Hickman County [3] 156 acres (0.63 km 2) Dawkins Line Rail Trail: Johnson and Magoffin Counties E. P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park: Louisville: 370 acres (1.5 km 2) Fort Boonesborough State Park: Richmond: 153 acres (0.62 km 2) General Burnside State Park: Pulaski County [3] 430 acres (1.7 km 2) Grayson Lake State Park ...
Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /, kə-LUM-bəs) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.With a 2020 census population of 905,748, [10] it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas).
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The park's origins date to 1851, when the Franklin County Agricultural Society organized and purchased eight acres here. [2] From 1874 to 1885, the land was used to host the Ohio State Fair . The Franklin Park Cascades is a water feature of ponds and waterfalls, constructed in 1991 for Ameriflora '92 .