Talk:Fairmount Park
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[edit] Contiguous...
Considering this park isn't contiguous, how can it claim to be the largest municipal park? The criteria is certainly flawed is it allows 65 seperate pieces of land to stake a claim at the largest municipal park. Largest park system, perhaps. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of park is as follows:
- Pronunciation: 'pärk
- Function: noun
- Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin parricus, from pre-Latin parra pole, trellis
- 1 a) an enclosed piece of ground stocked with game and held by royal prescription or grant b) a tract of land that often includes lawns, woodland, and pasture attached to a country house and is used as a game preserve and for recreation
- 2 a) a piece of ground in or near a city or town kept for ornament and recreation
A park is a single piece, not 65 pieces. That is all. --Daysleeper47 19:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Valley Forge?
Sorry, but Fairmount Park does not reach all the way to Valley Forge, which is several miles outside the Philly city limits. The Morris Arboretum, maybe.--BillFlis 18:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
