MacGregor Park

[5] It was named after Henry Frederick MacGregor, who was from Derry, New Hampshire, and had ancestry from Northern Ireland.

[6] His estate gave the city government the money to establish the park,[7] and his widow, Elizabeth "Peggy" MacGregor, donated the land.

[5] The current park has a focus on recreational activities while MacGregor's original vision emphasized it being a space for nature.

[5] MacGregor Park was a popular gathering spot for African-American youth in the late 1980s and the early 1990s,[9] and they typically pursued recreation on Sundays.

Andrew Dansby of the Houston Chronicle wrote in 2016 that "Those big Sundays never returned in quite the same way, though MacGregor remained a neighborhood touchstone.