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Archive Home > 2001 > October > 17 > Autumn has arrived in Drake Park and other nearby places

Autumn has arrived in Drake Park and other nearby places

A colorful viewing is shown daily at Bend's own Drake Park

By Andy Whipple / The Bulletin
October 17, 2001

Alexander Drake, a wheeler-dealer from Michigan, sold his Mirror Pond homesite to the city of Bend for $21,000 back in 1921. Today, visitors and more than a few residents marvel at this genuine, if accidental, monument to land-use planning.

John Simpson, landscape architect for Bend Parks and....

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