In 2007, TPL acquired a property and held it until it could become part of this new 2.6-acre neighborhood park in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood.
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The heart of Boston's Museum of African American History is the African Meeting House, the oldest remaining black church structure in the United States.
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In 2007, concerned residents asked TPL to help protect more than 140 acres on the borough's border, adjacent to the local Heritage Park and a new elementary school site.
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The 25-acre Balboa Park is located in the Excelsior neighborhood, a community with the highest concentration of children in San Francisco.
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Between 1992 and 1999 TPL has helped conserve many acres of the Barton Creek greenbelt, which begins at Barton Springs, near Austin, Texas, creating a large metropolitan park.
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TPL added one mile of trail to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in a heavily used area near Sandy City. Protecting the Bear Canyon property opens the trail to more people, protects local drinking water, and extends the expanse of the nearby national forest.
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In the 19th century, Asheville's boys and girls went to separate schools on opposite sides of town. Local storytellers say that mountain trails circling the city offered quiet places for young couples to meet, and thus Beaucatcher Mountain got its name.
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TPL preserved a 10-acre property at the entrance of Bellwood Quarry, which will be a new 300-acre park along Atlanta's Beltline.
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The Trust for Public Land protected the 515-acre Belt Farm, which features the last stand of virgin hardwood forest on the Atlantic coastal plain.
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Until recently, West Oakland's Bertha Port Park featured only a quarter-acre sandy lot, a single tree, and a forlorn blue statue of a dolphin.
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