The Boulevard Park Neighborhood Story

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Those documents should be preserved and donated to the Historical Society. They are treasures of our past.

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Some of the boulevard Park residents found old deeds in the ir attics with rules and regulations for the neighborhood.

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When it was first built Boulevard Park was a gated community heavily restrictede to prevent undesirable people from living there. It also had a strict building code as to what could and coulde not be built or located there.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=weU_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=XlgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2285%2C179274

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Note that just East of Boulevard Park is located the 60 acres of Williamson land that houses WKBN AM-FM-TV

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Map

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https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P3o_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=5FQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2039%2C6419294

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Warren P. Williamson, Sr.

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Those who live in the Boulevard Park neighborhood owe their neighborhood to one visionary man, and this briefly is the story of how it came about.
The history of the Boulevard Park neighborhood on Youngstown's South Side is tied in with one man's vision, that man being Warren P. Williamson, Sr., the father of another visionary, Warren P. Williamson, Jr. the founder of WKBN.
The company that W. P. Williamson Sr. was President of owned a large tract on land and being developers set out to create a community, and in April of 1929 announced the opening of Boulevard Park, and it wouldn't be too many years before another neighboring tract of land near Boulevard Park would become home to first the Transmitter and later the studios of WKBN AM-FM-TV.