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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

https://books.google.com/books?id=EhNbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&dq=tracy+engineer+union+county+parks&source=bl&ots=MhFErYVca8&sig=8OpXBROijpDh2pM6bM2vMwfNI54&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Alq-VMjrKIeWgwSbhIH4CA&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=tracy%20engineer%20union%20county%20parks&f=false

 

Historic Sites

 

http://mountainsidelibrary.org/site/1858moun/UCHistoricSites.pdf

 

 

 

tracy comes from Bronx river parkwy comm.

 

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=_QU0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA250&lpg=PA250&dq=tracy+union+county+parks+engineer&source=bl&ots=2nczP_zy57&sig=6uFCtqFqg3Qj98QwQyhu8m08a-Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TFy-VMfzEciZNoq_g7AL&ved=0CEwQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=tracy%20union%20county%20parks%20engineer&f=false

 

 

 

90th anniversary story

 

http://www.nj.com/suburbannews/index.ssf/2011/05/union_county_parks_mark_90th_a.html

 

 

 

tracy’s obit

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=kRlbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA136&lpg=RA1-PA136&dq=richmond+tracy+union+county+parks+engineer&source=bl&ots=BXeKpwno9Z&sig=3sHwztxnALosLtUkYNh7nM5dSjs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uWG-VICzLMqoNrDOgIAP&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=richmond%20tracy%20union%20county%20parks%20engineer&f=false

 

 

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