Park
Franklin Park
Sprawling city parkland with a historic nine-hole-turned-eighteen-hole public golf course amid rolling meadows.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Franklin Park in Boston opens in October 1890, when former baseball star George Wright walked into the meadows carrying a strange Scottish import and drew the attention of a police officer before he could hit a single shot. You'll hear how Wright pushed to get a proper course built here, the architect who later reshaped it and the young Harvard golfer who came to sharpen his swing. The guide also follows George Grant, a Black dentist and golf-tee inventor, and whose turn it was to play these fairways once white members were done for the day.
This audio guide was created using AI.