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Rollingwood Park
An eleven-acre community park at the heart of Rollingwood, donated piece-by-piece by the Western Hills Optimist Club beginning in 1968. Houses ballfields, a pavilion, and the George B. Hatley memorial gate. Subject of the city's first formally written park-history article.
Rollingwood Park sits on land originally purchased in the 1950s from George B. Hatley by the Western Hills Optimist Club, a non-profit founded in 1955 by A. A. Mack Hull with twenty charter members. The club spent the 1960s clearing and developing the eleven-acre tract — hauling fill from the Bee Caves Road expansion to level the ballfields out of the original hills — and progressively transferred parcels to the City of Rollingwood. The Rollingwood Park Project, championed by resident Hazel Maxwell in 1978 and sponsored by the Rollingwood Woman's Club and City Council, gave the park its modern shape.
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