Volunteer Park

Volunteer Park was worked in the late 1980's and was named after the Volunteer Coaches Association which helped manufacture the recreation center. Individuals from this volunteer association raised the assets expected to buy the property and materials to fabricate the recreation center and gave a great part of the work. The parking area and football fields were included from reserves from the 1996 SPLOST. Volunteer Park was procured by the city of Seattle for $2,000 in 1876 from J.M. Colman. In 1885 it was assigned a burial ground, yet after two years it was named "Lake View Park," and Lake View Cemetery was produced on a neighboring plot of land. The recreation center at that point ended up known as "City Park." In 1901, it was renamed "Volunteer Park" to respect the volunteers who served in the Spanish– American War. J. Willis Sayre, a Seattle theater pundit, columnist, and student of history, who had battled in the war, had effectively campaigned neighborhood authorities to rename this stop. From 1904 to 1909, the Olmsted Brothers arranged formal gets ready for the recreation center.