Wedgwood Park

Dedication

1955

Size

6.6 acres

Additional amenities

Backstop
Bench
Electrical box
Park lighting
Playground
Shelter
Soccer field
Softball/baseball field
Stand alone swing
Table
Tennis court
Trash receptacle

Fun facts

Wedgwood Park is located in southwest Fort Worth adjacent to Bruce Shulkey Elementary School. Being adjacent to the school offers students additional open recreational and green space. The surrounding Wedgwood neighborhood was developed in the 1950s and follows a curvilinear fashion; with all the streets starting with the letter 'W'.

Recreation

The park has lawns for softball and baseball as well as soccer games. A nearly 0.50 mile long cement trail connects the playing fields to the playground, tennis court and the surrounding neighborhoods.

History

Upon the recommendation of S. Herbert Hare, in 1954 the park board approved the Wedgwood Land Company’s offer of seven acres for a park in southwest Fort Worth within the Wedgwood development in exchange for the park department paying for street, water and sewer improvements totaling $8,750. The land company was to pay any expenses exceeding that amount. The park, primarily composed of a playground with tennis courts, adjoins Bruce Shulkey Elementary School which was completed in 1958. The placement of parks next to schools was seen as an advantageous way to provide ample playground space for surrounding neighborhoods. Hare and Hare’s 1957 park master plan praised Wedgwood Park as a good example of this arrangement in a residential development.

Geology

The park geology is of the Pawpaw Formation of calcareous ledge-forming limestone interbedded by Weno Limestone and Denton Clay marls.

Soils

The park consists of the Aledo-Bolar series consists of shallow to very shallow, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in interbedded limestones and marls of Cretaceous age.

Ecology

The park is located on what was once a prairie ecosystem known as the Fort Worth Prairie. Today, there are remnants of this narrow band of prairie, which can be seen west of Fort Worth and in a few parks within city limits including Tandy Hills Natural Area. Buffalograss, a shortgrass prairie turfgrass species persists at the park.

View animal, plant and insect species observed at Wedgwood Park and make some of your own observations through iNaturalist. See link under the "Related information" Section.

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