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This park’s site is the former location of the Sycamore Heights (Little Tandy) School. The school was destroyed by strong winds in May 1935. The Board of Education transferred the property to the Park Department soon after and it was briefly called Tandy Park. According to the Board of Park Commissioners’ report for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1938, the Works Progress Administration was to construct a shelter on the foundation of the former school. The rustic wood shelter was completed by February 1939. Other improvements were to include play equipment for small children, a junior softball diamond, curbs, gutters, and walks as well as the planting of trees and shrubs
In 1940, the East Side Civic League dedicated and christened a new park “Meadowood Park.” L. N. Baugh, commander of the Texas division of the United Confederate Veterans named the park by combining the names of two adjacent streets, Meadowbrook Drive and Harwood Street. Hare and Hare’s 1957 master plan described the 1.75-acre park as “[a] useful but small playground for children, with a small shelter building, but no toilets.” By 1965, the park reportedly contained a playground, fountains and a small shelter—features similar to those it has today. It received playground renovations in 2004 that were funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Interior’s Urban Park and Recreation Recovery and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Community Development Block Grant funds.
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2800 Meadowbrook Drive, Fort Worth 76103 View Map
2800 Meadowbrook Drive , Fort Worth 76103
Meadowood Park Hours: Open from Dawn to Dusk
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