From the Richmond Dispatch, 6/27/1873, p. 5, c. 7

Chimborazo Heights as a Park.

To the Editors of the Dispatch:

While upon the subject of parks, permit me to call attention to “Chimborazo Heights” as being probably the most suitable place for a public park at the eastern end of the town. The people of Church Hill have repeatedly petitioned for a park in that section, but our Council have not thought proper to give it much attention. Our city needs two or three parks convenient to the people – places that our wives and children could walk to and spend an hour or two in the afternoon – and from which strangers could view the city and its surroundings. We have no objection to the City Council purchasing --- acres for a park five miles from town up the river, for the pleasures of those who have carriages and horses, and would a-riding go, but we claim that the mass of the people need places for recreation as much as the more fortunate need places for show and style. Give us, the people, Monroe Park and a park on Gamble’s Hill, and one at Chimborazo, and then talk about going up the river, and we will make no objection.

CHURCH HILL.

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