Old Raleigh maps reveal a historic park at the end of a trolley line — but no trace of it exists today.
Unlike Bloomsbury Park, another lost trolley park with a roller coaster and carousel that once stood near Five Points on Glenwood Avenue, Brookside Park is even older, with even less historic information.
A photo of the park couldn’t even be found for this segment, but proof of Brookside’s existence can be seen on old maps and in newspapers from the 1890s. It even had a pavilion and its own lake, called Lake George, both of which are now gone.
Brookside Park opened in 1888 and maps indicate that it stood just north of Oakwood Cemetery. In a newspaper article the land was described as “the loveliest shaded hillside, the most attractive combination of trees and grass, rocks and water in Raleigh township.”
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