Sentence examples for the first parks from inspiring English sources

The first parks belonged to kings and queens, and were used largely for hunting.

One of the first parks Rolfe and Reynolds bought together was the Holiday Manufactured Home Community in Pontoon Beach, Ill.

Zion was one of the first parks to deal with the overwhelming crowds by closing the park to traffic and instituting a shuttle bus system in 2000.

The first parks had been jerry-built, flimsy wooden structures, but between 1909 and 1923 some 15 major league clubs constructed new, more permanent parks of steel and concrete.

Seeing them as retreats from the noise, dirt, and squalor of the industrial city, the owners gave the first parks pastoral names Ebbets Field, Sportsman's Park, and the Polo Grounds but, with the construction of symmetrical, multisports facilities in the 1960s and '70s, urban and futuristic names such as Astrodome and Kingdome predominated.

The law that established the first parks, in 1949, also called for the drawing up of so-called definitive maps, on which every parish in England and Wales was asked to record all the footpaths, bridleways (wide enough for a horse), and "roads used as a path" (cart tracks, more or less) within its borders.

Zion is the first park to consider such a solution.

The trek begins at the first parking lot, just past a bridge, near the park entrance.

This is surely the first parking garage in history to be regularly rented out for parties.

Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted's firm, this park was created in 1895 as the first park in the Essex County park system.

The official opening is planned for April 2002, 10 years from the inauguration of the first park.