Lee Memorial Park: the Master Plan presentation

Click here (27.1MB) for a copy of the presentation submit to City Council in January 2004 about Lee Memorial Park’s Master Plan. For some background… Not only is Lee Memorial Park a beautiful outdoor habitat and park. It also is of paleontological significance, contains a number of Civil War breastworks, contains a wildflower and […]

April 4, 2008; 3:37 PM • by brenda p

Click here (27.1MB) for a copy of the presentation submit to City Council in January 2004 about Lee Memorial Park’s Master Plan.

For some background…

Not only is Lee Memorial Park a beautiful outdoor habitat and park. It also is of paleontological significance, contains a number of Civil War breastworks, contains a wildflower and bird sanctuary that was installed under Roosevelt’s WPA program by single female heads of households – the only known program of its kind in the country, and is the subject of one of the Commonwealth’s first segregation-related lawsuits.

In 2001, The Petersburg Garden Club and the City of Petersburg signed an MOU with the agreement that all long-term preservation and rehabilitation undertaken in the Park would be guided by a Lee Memorial Park Master Plan. The result of several years’ collaborative effort, the plan was presented to Council as stated above in January 2004.

With the master plan in place, the PGC subsequently worked toward the goals of forming a foundation (now the Willcox Watershed Conservancy), and securing 501c3 status (secured January 2007).

The WWC’s inaugural board meeting was in October last year, with guest speakers including the former Exec. Dir. of Maymont (Bob Hicks), the Exec. Dir. of Friends of Bryan Park (John Zeugner), a representative of the Dept. of Historic Resources (Ann Andrus), and the Environmental Program Planner with the Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation (Janit Llewellyn). And in January of this year, upwards of 50 members of the community participated in a two-Saturday strategic planning session. The strategic plan has since been approved.

YAY!

April 4, 2008 3:37 PM 0