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12. Chris Moran, “Big Plans for Emancipation Park,” Houston Chronicle, September 21, 2011. 13. Galveston Daily News, June 2, 1885, as reported in Turner and Wilson, Houston ’s Silent Garden, 72. 14. Sister M. Agatha, The History of Houston Heights 1891–1918 (Houston: Premier Printing Company, 1956), 16. 15. Louis F. Aulbach, “Vick’s Lake—A Popular Park on Buffalo Bayou,” http://users .hal-pc.org/~lfa/BB35.html. Vick’s Park is now called Spotts Park. 16. Marguerite Johnston, Houston The Unknown City 1836–1946. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991), 172–73. See also David G. McComb, Houston: A History (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), 43–44. 17. Sister Agatha, 95–96. 18. Ibid., 96. 19. Turner and Wilson, Houston’s Silent Garden, 97. 20. Works Progress Administration (WPA), Houston: A History and Guide (Houston : Anson Jones Press, 1942), 218. 21. Illustrated City Book of Houston, 1908, 159–160. 22. Illustrated City Book of Houston, 1914, 280–83. 23. http://www.houstonzoo.org/history. 24. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (New York: Abrams, 2001). 25. http://www.livingplaces.com/people/Andrew_Jackson_Downing.html. 26. Melvin Kalfus, Frederick Law Olmsted: The Passion of a Public Artist (New York: New York University Press, 1990). Kalfus writes of the traumatic death of Olmsted ’s mother when he was only three years old, and his lifelong psychological troubles, numerous accidents, and increasingly painful sieges of insomnia. After the exhausting work at Biltmore in Asheville, NC, Olmsted “gradually slipped into a complete mental breakdown, signaled initially by losses of memory and paranoid suspicions.” See also Michael Sperber, “Frederick Law Olmsted: Brief Life of the First Landscape Psycho-Architect 1822–1903,” Harvard Magazine, July–August 2007. Sperber notes that Olmsted’s medical records are sealed, so the exact nature of his mental illness is not known. 27. Witold Rybcznski, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Scribner, 1999). See also Charles E. Beveridge and Paul Rocheleau, Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape (New York: Rizzoli, 1995). 28. Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey through Texas Or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978), a reprint of the 1857 edition (New York: Dix, Edwards), Fourth Paperback Printing, 1989, 361–62. Chapter One 1. August Heckscher, “Open Spaces: A Metropolis Is Shaped by Them,” in Cities: The Forces that Shape Them, ed. Lisa Taylor (New York: Rizzoli, 1982), 38. 2. Daily Telegraph, September 10, 1871. 3. Suzanne Turner and Joann Seale Wilson, Houston’s Silent Garden: Glenwood Cemetery, 1871–2009 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010). 4. Houston Daily Post, November 12, 1882. 5. “Primary Documents in American History,” http://www.loc.gov/rr/program /bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html. The 13th Amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Lee surrendered, ending the Civil War on April 14, 1865, after which the Confederate states began to ratify the 13th Amendment. All states had ratified the amendment on December 6, 1865. 6. John Fenwick Dickson, an Irish immigrant, moved to Marshall, Texas, from Chicago in 1875 as superintendent of the Texas and Pacific Railway. In 1886 the Dicksons moved to Houston, where John F. Dickson founded the Dickson Car Wheel Co. with capital of $75,000. The rail car wheels produced by the company were sold throughout the United States and Mexico, making John Dickson a wealthy man. The family traveled widely and was the first in Houston to become serious art collectors. John’s son, George M. Dickson (1865–1918), left his personal collection to the Houston Art League, and it became the nucleus for the Museum of Fine Arts. This information is from a “Chronology of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,” http://prv.mfah.org /archives/pdf/mfah_chronology.pdf. 7. John F. Dickson, “The Emancipation Park: Should be Saved to the Negroes of Houston. An Appeal for Them,” Houston Daily Post, July 3, 1910, 15. 8. Willie Parker Chestnutt, “Chapter VI: Emancipation Park,” in “Recreation and the History of its Development among Negroes in Houston,” an essay submitted to the faculty of Houston College for Negroes in candidacy for partial fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of Science, June 1936: 20. Typescript found in vertical file “Emancipation Park,” HMRC, HPL (Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston...