36-987: Franklin Park may refer to some places in the United States: Franklin Park, Boston , a large public park in Boston, Massachusetts Franklin Park (Columbus park) , a park in Columbus, Ohio Franklin Park (Columbus, Ohio) , a neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio Franklin Park Conservatory , a conservatory in Columbus, Ohio Franklin Park, Florida Franklin Park, Illinois Franklin Park, Middlesex County, New Jersey Franklin Park, Trenton, New Jersey Franklin Park, New Jersey in Somerset County Franklin Park, Pennsylvania Franklin Park (race track) ,
72-538: A slaty , well-developed, spaced cleavage that oriented approximately perpendicular to bedding within it. Typically, tectonism has flattened, stretched, indented, and fractured the pebbles and associated matrix of the Roxbury Conglomerate to the point that it often has the appearance of flow structure. The strata of the Boston Bay Group lie within a faulted bounded basin. They are bounded by normal faults to
108-754: A defunct harness racing track in Saugus, Massachusetts Franklin Park, the original name of Franklin Square in Washington, D.C. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franklin_Park&oldid=952719966 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
144-475: A few centimeters to tens of centimeters in thickness have also been documented in this unit. A number of processes have been proposed for the deposition of the Roxbury Conglomerate. Initially, it was proposed that the Boston Basin was a nonmarine basin, in which rivers and mountain glaciers transported and deposited the sediments, which comprise the Roxbury Conglomerate. Further and more detailed examination of
180-617: A few outsized pebbles or cobbles that have depressed the underlying laminae and giving them the appearance of dropstones . The gravel-size portion of the Squantum Member diamictites consists of range from sub-rounded to angular clasts, 5–60 cm (2–24 in) in diameter, to well-rounded clasts 3–8 cm (1.1–3 in) in diameter. They are composed of multicoloured, locally derived felsic and mafic volcanic rocks, granodiorite, quartzite and massive, graded and laminated sandstone and siltstone. The sand- and gravel-sized fraction of
216-677: A grand staircase leading to a large courtyard, framed by several large iron bear cages. One of these cages featured a detailed stone sculpture of bears and the crest of the City of Boston. Plans of expanding the Long Crouch Woods section of the zoo never came to fruition. As the grounds deteriorated, and as the Parks Department neglected many of the landscape's most basic management needs, the Bear Dens became too expensive to maintain. The exhibit area
252-507: A heterogeneous and poorly sorted admixture of rare boulders up to 1.2 m in diameter, pebbles, cobbles, and sand in a silty-clay matrix. These diamictites occur as beds, which range in thickness from 18 to 215 m (60 to 705 ft) and are typically interbedded with purplish, greenish and grey siltstone, sandstone, and medium-to fine-grained argillite. Typically, the diamictites are mostly massive and lenticular in form; some are crude to moderately well sorted; and some exhibit normal grading. Most of
288-673: A landmark. The park received that designation on August 26, 1980, joining two other sections of the Emerald Necklace ( Boston Common and Boston Public Garden ). It was included as part of the Olmsted Park System when that landscape complex was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1971. From the proceeds of the sale of the Winthrop Square Garage for redevelopment as Winthrop Center ,
324-731: Is bordered primarily by Forest Hills St., Walnut Ave., Seaver St., Blue Hill Ave., Walk Hill St., and the American Legion Highway. Franklin Park, previously known as West Roxbury Park, was renamed in honor of Boston-born patriot Benjamin Franklin , who documented in his will that he wished for a portion of his estate to be given to a worthy cause. The park brings together rural scenery, a woodland preserve, and areas for active recreation and sports. Franklin Park also has six miles (9.7 km) of roads and fifteen miles (24 km) of pedestrian and bridle paths to explore. Much of Franklin Park
360-461: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Franklin Park, Boston Franklin Park , a partially wooded 527-acre (2.13 km ) parkland bordered by the Jamaica Plain , Roxbury , and Dorchester neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts , is maintained by the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. It is Boston's biggest park and
396-758: Is named for exposures in Roxbury, in the Boston area. It is the Rock of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts . The Roxbury Conglomerate comprises the lower part of the Boston Bay Group, which is a 5,000-meter-thick (3 miles) sequence of sedimentary rocks that fill the Neoproterozoic Boston Basin in eastern Massachusetts. The upper part of the Boston Bay Group consists of the Cambridge Argillite, which overlies
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#1732844762259432-525: Is scenic and devoted to the general use and enjoyment of the public. Scarboro Pond and Ellicott Arch are popular sites within the park, as are the large forested areas. The park also has picnic areas, stone bridges, outcroppings of Roxbury Puddingstone , and old stone ruins, specifically the Long Crouch Woods of Roxbury—also known as "the Bear Dens." In March 4, 1980, the Boston Landmarks Commission recommended that Franklin Park be designated
468-518: The Billy Taylor Trio and the Boston Pops . From 1823–1824, before the park was created, Ralph Waldo Emerson lived in a small cabin atop what is now named "Schoolmaster Hill", running a "School for Young Ladies" with his mother and brother. Emerson drew upon the landscape for inspiration for nature poetry and essays. Besides a plaque devoted to Emerson's memory, Schoolmaster Hill offers views of
504-784: The Tropical Forest (formerly called the African Tropical Forest ), opened in September 1989. The zoo is the second largest zoo in New England , after the Southwick's Zoo in Mendon . The Long Crouch Woods, the location of the historic "Bear Dens", is also located within the park. Once the focus of the zoo, the Bear Dens were designed and built in 1912, and were planned to have a small collection of domestic animals. The original grounds featured
540-528: The 19th and early 20th centuries it was frequently used to construct walls and house foundations in the Boston area; some of the stone was quarried in Brighton and Newton, but the most extensive workings were those in Roxbury. The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote a poem called "The Dorchester Giant" in 1830, and referred to this special kind of stone, "Roxbury puddingstone", also quarried in Dorchester, which
576-538: The Blue Hills . Roxbury Conglomerate The Roxbury Conglomerate , also informally known as Roxbury puddingstone , is a name for a rock formation that forms the bedrock underlying most of Roxbury, Massachusetts , now part of the city of Boston . The bedrock formation extends well beyond the limits of Roxbury, underlying part or all of Quincy , Canton , Milton , Dorchester , Dedham , Jamaica Plain , Brighton , Brookline , Newton , Needham , and Dover . It
612-809: The Boston Bay Group points to deposition associated with volcanic activity. Past identification of a glaciogenic origin for the Roxbury Conglomerate was based entirely on the identification of ‘dropstones’ and striated pebbles, which have not been substantiated by later and more detailed research. The Roxbury Conglomerate is typically unfossiliferous. The only fossils which have been reported from it are 0.5–3.5 cm (0.2–1.4 in) in diameter raised ring structures found in outcrops at Hewitt's Cove and Slate Island and two dislocated stromatolite hemispheroids found in laminated mudstones at Squantum Head. Based on radiometric dates from volcanic and plutonic rocks underlying it, igneous gravel it contains, from volcanic rocks, which interfinger with it, and fossils found in
648-500: The Brookline Member is complexly interbedded with layers of laminated and graded argillite and sandstone and massive diamictite. The Dorchester Member consists of purplish, greenish and grey siltstone , sandstone, and medium-to fine-grained argillite. As traditionally defined, it is 180–500 m (590–1,600 ft) thick and dominated by medium-to fine-grained argillite. It contains lesser amounts of sandstone and conglomerate than
684-522: The Brookline Member. The sandstone beds within this member commonly exhibit full or partial Bouma sequences. The beds within this member commonly exhibit evidence of penecontemporaneous deformation due to downslope slumping. The well-known Squantum Member is also known as the Squantum diamictite, Squantum 'Tillite', Squantum Tillite, or the Squantum Tilloid. It consists largely of diamictites that are
720-408: The Roxbury Conglomerate. The Roxbury Conglomerate traditionally has been subdivided into three subdivisions; (1.) basal Brookline Member ( conglomerate and sandstone ), (2.) medial Dorchester Member (mostly sandstone with minor conglomerate) and (3.) upper Squantum Member (largely diamictite ). However, these three subdivisions of the Roxbury Conglomerate complexly interfinger with each other and lack
756-651: The administration of Mayor Marty Walsh allocated $ 28 million for a renovation of Franklin Park, including $ 5 million for a maintenance endowment. An action plan for the renovation was posted for public comment in December 2022. Franklin Park Zoo is located within the park grounds. Founded in 1912, the 72-acre (290,000 m ) zoo has such exotic animals as lions , tigers , pygmy hippos , Masai giraffes , budgerigars , Amur leopards , western lowland gorillas , and Grévy's zebra . One of its most popular exhibit attractions,
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#1732844762259792-822: The altered basalt and andesite flows, pyroclastic rocks, breccia, tuff, and intrusive rocks. The upper part of the Brighton Volcanic rocks sporadically interfinger and interbedded with the Brookline and Dorchester members throughout the basin in the southern portion of the basin. Overlying the Squantum Member, the Cambridge Argillite consists of up to 5 km (3 miles) of laminated, dark to olive grey, graded, turbiditic siltstone and sandstone beds. Graded beds, starved ripples, scour marks, load casts and micro-faults are numerous. Soft sediment deformation structures, such as mega slump folds many meters in amplitude, and pinch and swell bedding, are also common. Discrete ash beds measuring
828-537: The city, the Franklin Park Coalition cleared the trash out of the area in 2002, and in 2007 was awarded a grant of $ 36,000 for materials and professional landscaping work to restore paths in the Long Crouch Woods area of Franklin Park. The project was completed with labor from summer youth crews comprising at-risk teens from the surrounding area. Franklin Park contains the eighteen-hole William J. Devine Memorial Golf Course (the second oldest public course in
864-456: The diamictite outcrops exhibit chaotic bedding in the form of contorted and folded patches of sand, local clusters of gravel, and coherent slump blocks of mudstone . In outcrops, lapilli tuff beds have also been identified in close association with the diamictite of the Squantum Member. At Squantum Head, the diamictite is interbedded with laminated mudstone beds that are 2 to 10 cm (0.8 to 4 in) thick. Some of laminated mudstone beds contain
900-676: The diamictites consist of volcanic, granitic and metasedimentary lithic fragments that have the same composition as the sediments of the Brookline and Dorchester members. Glacially striated pebbles, chattermarked quartz grains and dropstones have been reported from these diamictites. However, none of these reports have been substantiated by later research. For example, previously identified dropstones have been re-interpreted as having been emplaced by lateral sediment-gravity or current processes. The Roxbury Conglomerate has been significantly altered by metamorphism. Metamorphism has altered its sedimentary rocks to sub greenschist facies and created
936-404: The nation) as well as tennis courts , baseball fields , and several basketball courts . The Boston Rugby Football Club ( Boston RFC ) plays their matches at the park. There are large open areas used for lacrosse and soccer . One area of the park is used for cricket on Sunday afternoons. The park is a famed cross country course, hosting a number of high school and collegiate meets throughout
972-493: The north and west. Within the Boston Basin, Roxbury Conglomerate lies unconformably upon Dedham Granite, Westwood Granite, and much older Middlesex Fells Volcanic Complex. To the south, the Roxbury Conglomerate unconformably overlies Mattapan Volcanic Complex, which, in turn, overlies the Dedham Granite. The Dedham Granite, Westwood Granite, and older rocks are overlain by the calc-alkaline Brighton Volcanic rocks, which consist of
1008-503: The overlying Cambridge Argillite, the Roxbury Conglomerate accumulated between 570 and 595 million years ago. The Roxbury Conglomerate is underlain by circa 610 Ma Dedham Granite and circa 599 Ma Westwood Granite. It also overlies circa 596 Ma Mattapan Volcanic Complex. The Roxbury Conglomerate interfingers with upper part of the Brighton Volcanic rocks (c. 580–650 Ma). It is overlain by the Cambridge Argillite, which contains autochthonous Ediacaran microfossils (Bavlinella cf. faveolata). In
1044-499: The park as a racing facility, including erosion and disturbances of residents who wish to use the park for walks or peaceful bike rides. As races are hosted almost every Saturday (and a good number of Sundays) this issue will continue to be controversial. Franklin Park is often cited as the location of the "first game of intercollegiate ice hockey played in the United States" on January 19, 1898. Students from Brown University took
1080-456: The sedimentology of rocks comprising it has shown that the Boston Basin was a deep marine basin in which the sediments comprising the Roxbury Conglomerate accumulated as deep sea fans as the result of non-glacial subaqueous mass flow and turbidity current deposition. This is consistent with the thick turbidites, which accumulated within a submarine fan or slope environment, of the overlying Cambridge Argillite. The volcanic and coarse character of
1116-608: The simple layer-cake distribution that past studies have described. The Brookline Member of the Roxbury Conglomerate is the classic ‘ puddingstone ’ that is typically discussed and illustrated in popular web pages, articles, and other publications. It is about 150–1,300 m (490–4,300 ft) thick and consists of massive clast-supported pebble and cobble conglomerate beds interbedded with beds of argillite and sandstone. The conglomerates consist of grey feldspathic sand and well-rounded pebbles and cobbles of quartzite , granite , felsite, and quartz monzonite . The 'puddingstone' of
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1152-525: The site of Franklin Park Zoo . It was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in August 1980. Considered a country park when it was formed in the 19th century, Franklin Park is the largest and last component of the Emerald Necklace created by Frederick Law Olmsted . Although often neglected in the past, it is considered the "crown jewel" of Olmsted's work in Greater Boston . It
1188-529: The train to Boston, where they commandeered a patch of a frozen pond in Franklin Park, asked pleasure skaters to move aside, and played students from Harvard University . The details and outcome of the game were recorded in the following day's Boston Herald : Brown 6, Harvard 0. Franklin Park has an open-air public performance founded by Elma Lewis, a space known as the "Playhouse in the Park". This area has featured such renowned musicians as Duke Ellington ,
1224-711: The year. Franklin Park is home to the Massachusetts All-States Meet as well as the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship every other year (alternating with Van Cortlandt Park in New York City). The park includes courses for 3000 meters, 5000 meters, 6000 meters, 8000 meters and 10000 meters. Franklin Park also won the honor of hosting the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1992, as a special 12.5 kilometer course
1260-477: Was officially closed in 1954. It was later lopped off of the zoo property permanently in 1958, when the Metropolitan District Commission took over management of the zoo. Efforts have been made since 1980 to make Long Crouch Woods into a nature preserve with a snack bar and theatre facility; however, plans have continued to stall. After neighbor complaints it was not well maintained or cleaned by
1296-488: Was used for competition. Each course includes variants of 3 major loops, the stadium loop, the Bear Cage hill loop, and the wilderness loop. The stadium loop simply goes around the back of White Stadium , while the Bear Cage loop climbs the fairly significant Bear Cage Hill. The wilderness loop crosses into the wooded area of the park and follows a twisting path through the trees. There are many concerns regarding continued use of
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