A proposal to dispose “unused” property at Old Settler’s Park and a possible change in the lease terms for the county Poor Farm Barn were discussed this week by county commissioners.
Old Settlers Park, on the south end of Glen Lake was developed from a land used informally and as 1892, as a picnic ground. The first parcel consisting of five acres was purchased for $450, in 1912, from private parties. The deed of sale to the county notes that is was adjacent to a Methodist Church to the west, and that an “existing main traveled road or highway” crossed the southern end of the property. A second parcel was added was purchase in 1917. It consisted of one acres, and was conveyed to the county by the Methodist Church Association of Empire.
The third parcel was purchased but the county for $1 from private parties in 1927.
