The area which is now known as Elizabeth Park was once owned by local railroad and trust tycoon Charles M. Pond. When Pond passed away in 1904, he willed his estate to the City of Hartford with the stipulations that it be used as a horticultural park and that it be named for his wife, Elizabeth, who had died a few years earlier.
In Mr. Pond's time, the Hartford/West Hartford border was located about a quarter mile west of where it is today. When the boundary was moved to its present location, it resulted in the unusual situation of one of Hartford's larger parks being situated mostly within the Town of West Hartford.
Today the park encompasses 102 acres, and boasts the oldest public rose garden in the country.
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