Liberty Park 1910

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This file appears in: Making Way for the Freeway: Liberty Park

At its height, Liberty Park was as stately as Manito Park.

This file appears in: Making Way for the Freeway: Liberty Park

By Tracy L. Rebstock
Decline of the old Liberty Park began in the 1950s when the Spokane Park Board decided to fill in the pond for health reasons. In 1952 the city decided to dump nonburnable waste into the depression left by the pond and finally in 1956 plans for the…