First general superintendent 21 to 1957
On November 19, 1921, Henry S. Chatfield, Charles A. Reed, Arthur R. Wendell, Charles Hansen and Caxton Brown were officially appointed commissioners of the newly formed Union County Park Commission. In December of that year, the commissioners met to begin the task of building a park system. Over the next few years, potential park land was visited, landscape architects were hired and Princeton graduate W. Richmond Tracy, Chief Bridge Builder for the Bronx River Parkway, became the first man on the Park Commission payroll as Engineer-Secretary.
Aug. 14, 1936…cites Tracy building two 1,300–foot toboggan runs at Galloping Hill golf course
Historic Sites
http://mountainsidelibrary.org/site/1858moun/UCHistoricSites.pdf
tracy comes from Bronx river parkwy comm.
90th anniversary story
http://www.nj.com/suburbannews/index.ssf/2011/05/union_county_parks_mark_90th_a.html
tracy’s obit
uc history
https://ucnj.org/county-history/
reference to book, “from plan to reality”
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/American_Civic_Annual_1000792446/315
1924 article denying acquisition of echo lake club
http://archive.cranfordlibrary.org:8080/TheCranfordCitizenAndChronicle/1924/1924-08-21/pg_0008.pdf
green brook national historic site designation
http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/04000437.pdf
cites pressure to get system going, look for tracy…pg 16