The Metropolitan Park Board had spent much of its time and resources acquiring park lands prior to the late 1920s. By design, very little was invested in making Cleveland's outlying park system accessible to the public. This all changed during the early years of the Great Depression; parks were overrun with visitors in search of cheap recreation. As demand for access to the parks grew, the Park Board's available resources dwindled. Its limited funds were allocated to contracting labor-intensive park improvements, which provided work opportunities to unemployed Clevelanders. With the advent of federal work relief programs in 1933, Cleveland's Park Board received the labor, manpower and money needed to begin its work of making the parks available to the public. | Source: Courtesy of Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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