As we are looking forward to warmer days and a day at the beach, take a look at
Halloween Park and Bathing Pavilion
Download newspaper clipping of April 5, 1924
On Halloween night 1906, Homer Cummings cast the deciding vote to buy 95 acres of land for a public beach, which was first known as Halloween Park and later renamed Cummings Park. (Shippan History). Homer Cummings was twice mayor of Stamford and Franklin Roosevelt's first Attorney General.
A picture of the Bathing Pavilion
More can be found on this postcard selection, Fun at the Beach.
Stamford also once had a floating bathing pavilion, the "Patent Swimming-Baths" at Enniston Park, on the extreme south end of Shippan Point, which was wrecked by a storm in 1894. Wreck of Ennis' Patent Swimming Baths, Shippan Point, October 1894.
We do add the usual warning:
"At times, the accompanying vignettes are mostly folklore passed on to Mr. Bailey by residents of the areas where he was sketching. In those instances he had no way of determining the truth of the story. Nor have we. It is presented as a sidelight to the sketch. Therefore, researchers are cautioned to regard these tales as local color, interesting, thought provoking, but sometimes not entirely factual."
(Reference file: Bailey211.jpg)
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