Bounded roughly by Apalachee Pkwy., Bloxham, Suwanee, Munroe, and Meridian Sts., and state property line, Tallahassee, Florida. County/parish: Leon.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 12, 1971. NRIS 71000239.
1 contributing site. 1 contributing object.
Cascades Park is a 24-acre (97,000 m2) park along the stream known as the St. Augustine Branch in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, south of the Florida State Capitol. It is a Nationally Registered Historic Place because it influenced the territorial government's choice of the capital city's location. It also contains Florida's Prime meridian marker monument which is the foundation point for most land mapping throughout Florida.
The park as conceived in 1971 had a stream and shallow waterfalls but it closed because of soil contamination and toxic waste left buried by the gasification plant that once occupied the site. It was cleaned up with Department of Environmental Protection funding in 2006 and construction on the new park was initiated in 2010 using money from the penny sales tax. The newly designed Cascades Park opened in 2014. Features of the new park include the Capital City Amphitheater, a fountain with light, music, splash pads, and ponds, and boulder climbing, beachscape and outdoor classroom area known as Discovery at Cascade Park that was privately funded.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77842992