Lee Memorial Park
park at Petersburg, Virginia, United States
Legends Park (Formerly Lee Memorial Park) is a historic park and national historic district located at Petersburg, Virginia. The district includes two contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures. They are the park superintendent's house, the bathhouse, Willcox Lake reservoir, the Civil War earthworks, the park's system of roadways, paths and trails, the park's general topography and the Lee Park Wild Flower and Bird Sanctuary created by the Works Progress Administration between 1935 and 1940. As part of the W.P.A. project, Petersburg artist Bessie Niemeyer Marshall painted 238 watercolors of Lee Park herbarium specimens.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
“Lee Memorial Park” enters the record as park at Petersburg, Virginia, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Memorial, Park and park can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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