From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 6/2/1911, p. 12, c. 3

The playground subcommittee reported that all city playgrounds would be opened on June 16, including two added since last summer, one on the Van Lew property on Church Hill, and one on property of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Fulton. Supervisors and monitors were elected on nomination of the Federation of Mother’s Clubs, and the report adopted. Plans were approved for keepers’ houses in Joseph Bryan and Marshall Parks. It was announced that the summer band concerts would open on Monday night at Chimborazo Park.

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