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In early 1917 the War Department leased 7,600 acres of forest land on Buffalo Bayou about five miles west of downtown Houston for a World War I training camp called Camp Logan. 25,000 soldiers trained there until 1923, when the camp hospital closed and the camp was deserted. Catherine Mary Emmott initiated the founding of Memorial Park when she wrote the Houston Chronicle suggesting that “the city buy some of the land and turn it into a park in memory of the boys.” Will and Mike Hogg, with minority owner Henry Stude, bought two tracts of former Camp Logan and then, rather than develop it into a subdivision similar to River Oaks, sold the 1,503 acres to the city at cost. In May 1924, the City of Houston officially took title to the land and established Houston’s Memorial Park in memory of the soldiers who had trained there. Soon after the city took possession of the land, nationally acclaimed landscape architects Hare & Hare of Kansas City were hired to create a plan for the park. Initial plans called for an 18-hole golf course, scenic drives, trails for hikers and “nature students,” bridle paths, and an amphitheater. Over 30 miles of trails exist today. Beautification was simply to involve existing vegetation. One newspaper reporter wrote, “Memorial Park is to be kept in the wild state, almost entirely, and made a sanctuary for birds, small game, wild flowers, holly, and whatever else needs protection against man These are the present plans for Memorial Park. It is up to the vigilance of the nature lovers of Houston in years to come to keep them so and prevent the civilizing of that park.” And vigiliant we have been. After the death of Ima Hogg, a Memorial Park Advisory Committee was created. In 1993, Chairman Sadie Gwin Blackburn asked permission from the Parks and Recreation Department, to enlarge the committee to include representatives of the major user groups of the park. The committee was formally organized in 2000 as the Memorial Park Conservancy. G W H Green Works Houston

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