Originally a 20-foot-deep peat bog, the playfield site was first developed as part of a dahlia farm.

The farm extended considerably further south than the present playfield: its southernmost part was south of Lynn Street, the land used to build St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church.

[1][2] In the late 1920s, the principal of Garfield High School declared the need of a playfield and community center, and the farm was chosen.

[citation needed] In 1960, to remedy flooding, the playfield began to be raised with fill, including dirt from the excavation of State Route 520 through Montlake.

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