It was formerly the country estate of political boss John Henry Whallen, and began development as a park in 1923, but was not completed until the 1930s.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the NAACP aided three Louisville residents in suing the city over the inequalities between the white- and black-only parks in Louisville.

[2] The park features the city's only free clay tennis courts.

Other features include a basketball court, a pond, a sprayground, two playgrounds, a lodge, and two picnic pavilions.

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