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Cascades Park is a 〔 park along the stream known as the St. Augustine Branch in Tallahassee, Florida, south of the Florida State Capitol. It is a Nationally Registered Historic Place〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Florida — Leon County )〕 because it influenced the territorial government's choice of the capital city's location.〔 The newly designed Cascades Park opened in 2014.〔 In 2006 most of the park is closed to the public because of soil and water contamination from coal tar released by a manufactured gas plant that was once located on the site. Some $30 million was spent on it for a 3,000 seat outdoor amphitheater, 2.4 miles of multi-use trail, historical monuments, and a "children's discovery" playground.〔 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. 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. 〔Tickle-Down Effect; Ciry leaders call Tallahassee's Cascades Park a game-changer by Wendy Dixon June 2014 Florida Trend〕 ==History== In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States. A territorial government was established, but the two largest cities, Pensacola and St. Augustine, were too far west and east, respectively, for either to make a good permanent capital. Territorial governor William Pope Duval appointed two commissioners, one from Pensacola and one from St. Augustine, to choose a location roughly halfway between them to build the new capital. When they saw a beautiful waterfall in what is now Cascades Park, they chose a nearby hill as the location for the future city of Tallahassee.〔 John Lee Williams, the commissioner from Pensacola, wrote of the waterfall:〔Quoted in 〕 The Florida State Capitol stands approximately a quarter mile northwest of where the waterfall and sinkhole were located. The area was used as a meeting place in the earlier portion of the 19th century for hunters and travelers. During the early 20th century, it was home to Centennial Field, formerly used to play minor league baseball and football, as well as a Korean War memorial. In 1971, Governor Reubin Askew and the Florida Cabinet recognized the park’s significance in a resolution. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cascades Park (Tallahassee)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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