点评:The casual visitor to Brackenridge Park in San Antonio, Texas, may be totally unaware that the 349-acre park, with its picnic areas, baseball fields, playgrounds, pavilions, walking trails, museum, zoo and golf course, occupies some of the most historically rich land in the city. Nothing tells the visitor that the park represents a long timeline reaching back at least 12,000 years. It is a rich tapestry of history linked by the San Antonio River that rises from springs above and in the park and flows through the park on its southeasterly course to the Gulf of Mexico. Located at 3700 North St. Mary's Street, on the city's Broadway Corridor just north of the downtown area, the park was created in 1899 and has now grown to include such popular attractions as the San Antonio Zoo, the Witte Museum, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Sunken Garden Theater, the Tuesday Musical Club, the San Antonio Botanical Garden, the DoSeum and the two-foot narrow gauge San Antonio Zoo Eagle train ride. All of which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. Imagine, if not for the springs and the river, Native Americans and Spanish explorers never would have camped here and the presidio, mission and village that grew to become San Antonio, the second largest city in Texas, would never have been established. This is where it all began. Aside from the springs and the river, the rocky outcroppings west and below the headwaters were the city's largest and most consistent source of high-quality hard limestone that was quarried and used to construct buildings throughout the city. After the quarry was abandoned in 1916, it became the site of the Japanese Tea Garden. Today, with only a few exceptions, Brackenridge Park remains remarkably unchanged since the 1940s.
翻译:德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥布拉肯里奇公园的临时游客可能完全没有意识到这个占地 349 英亩的公园及其野餐区、棒球场、游乐场、凉亭、步行道、博物馆、动物园和高尔夫球场占据了大部分地区这座城市历史上富饶的土地。没有什么能告诉游客这个公园代表着至少可以追溯到 12,000 年前的漫长时间线。这是一幅丰富的历史画卷,由圣安东尼奥河相连,圣安东尼奥河发源于公园上方和公园内的泉水,沿东南方向流经公园,流向墨西哥湾。该公园创建于 1899 年,位于北圣玛丽街 3700 号,位于市区北部的百老汇走廊、下沉花园剧院、星期二音乐俱乐部、圣安东尼奥植物园、DoSeum 和两英尺窄轨圣安东尼奥动物园之鹰列车。所有这些都在 2011 年被列入了国家历史名胜名录。想象一下,如果没有泉水和河流,美洲原住民和西班牙探险家永远不会在这里露营,也不会成为圣安东尼奥的要塞、使命和村庄,得克萨斯州第二大城市,永远不会建立。这就是一切的开始。除了泉水和河流,西部和源头以下的岩石露头是该市最大和最稳定的优质硬石灰石来源,这些石灰石被开采并用于在整个城市建造建筑物。采石场于 1916 年废弃后,成为日本茶园所在地。今天,除了少数例外,布拉肯里奇公园自 1940 年代以来保持着显着的变化。