“Near 7 Acres Added to Cave Point Park” from the April 21, 1944 Door County Advocate
Near 7 Acres Added to Cave Point Park
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Commission Closes Deal at Annual Meeting Tuesday
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Door county’s county park system was increased to over 90 acres Tuesday when the park commission closed a deal for the purchase of three more acres of land and accepted a gift of 3 2-3 [3 ⅔] acres to make the new Cave Point park 900 feet square or a total of 18 2-3 acres.
The county board had appropriated $600 for the three acres, 90 additional feet of shoreline on each side of the previously acquired park land, and Reynolds and Lyons, owners, generously donated the balance, lying at the rear, when approached on the matter by H. R. Holand, commission chairman.
The meeting was also the annual session for election of officers, and Mr. Holand and W. E. Wagener were unanimously re-elected chairman and secretary respectively. They have served ever since the commission was organized in the fall of 1927. During that time, the county has acquired six parks, Claflin park at Little Sturgeon, Tornado in Gardner, LaSalle in Clay Banks, the original land now embraced by the Ridges Sanctuary at Baileys Harbor, Murphy park at Horseshoe bay, and lastly, Cave point on the Sevastopol-Jacksonport line.
Through Mr. Holand’s efforts, over two-thirds of the property was donated to the county, worth approximately $16,325 base on $5 a shore front foot. In addition, large sums were donated by individuals and towns in the form of labor and material for development.
Seventh Park Approved
Purchase of a seventh county park was approved by the commission Tuesday, which will recommend to the county board in May that a deal be closed for the Chaudoir dock property in Union for $2,000. The area, long popular for picnics, has 700 feet of water frontage on Green bay and covers about seven acres, a small part of which is wooded. A paved road leads to the dock.
The Chaudoirs originally proposed to sell the entire tract, but under the new arrangement, they will retain two acres on which will be permitted use of the pier for fishing operations. The commission proposes to set out groups of trees to add beauty to the tract and provide shelter for picnickers.
The present development of Cave Point park under Mr. Holand’s direction was endorsed by the commissioners. An area immediately at the caves has been cleared of underbrush and the new public entrance road is nearly completed. It was planned to set out about 500 evergreens on the sparsely wooded point this spring, but it has been learned that the trees will not be obtainable until fall.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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