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Harbins Park

park in Dacula, Georgia, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ128799389
Source-derived summary

Harbins Park is a park located in Dacula, Georgia. The park was built in 2009 and completed in 2012. The park has a total area of 1290 acres, with 24.5 miles of trails. The park is open from sunrise to sunset.

Trails and amenities

Harbins Park has 3 entrances: the park entrance, the equestrian entrance, and the football/multi purpose entrance. The park also has a 4.3-mile paved a multi-purpose trail, a 7-mile equestrian trail, a 13-mile mountain biking trail, and a 4.5-mile hiking trail. The park has playgrounds, pavilions, grills, restrooms, equestrian trailer parking, a football/multi-purpose field with a walking track, a dog park area, a river channel, a lake, a seven-field baseball/softball complex, and a football field.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Harbins Park” as park in Dacula, Georgia, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2012, 1290—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Harbins, Park and park can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as park in Dacula, Georgia, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q128799389. Authority coordinates are 33.904, -83.851. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2012 and 1290.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Harbins Park”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Harbins Park primary sources, Harbins Park archive and Harbins research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Harbins Park”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Harbins Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.