On May 14, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Diane Morton
<dianegmor...@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=dianegmor...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
I have a copy of a booklet called "Stewart Park, Its History, Buildings
and Plantings", published for Earth Day, 1990.
Here is what it says about that tract of land:
"When the future of the park was uncertain, fifty-five acres immediately
to the south were set aside as a bird sanctuary. Sometime in 1913, the
land was presented to the City of Ithaca by Renwick descendants-- it was
the last significant portion of the 1790 tract to remain in their hands.
The sanctuary was christened as the "Renwick Wildwood" and maintained by
the Cayuga Bird Club. The club developed a system of trails and
constructed a concrete arch at the southern entrance in 1917. These
projects were funded by the city's Board of Public Works, but executed
with
volunteer labor. The president of the club at the time was the
artist-naturalist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. After his death in 1927, the
sanctuary was renamed in his honor."
So it would seem that either name could be used, with "Fuertes Sanctuary"
dating from 1927.
Diane Morton
It was six years after his death, more specifically June 1933, that the
sanctuary was renamed in Fuertes' honor.
And this re-naming was done by your very same Cayuga Bird Club in
conjunction with the Ithaca Rotary Club.
(See Boynton, Mary Fuertes. 1956. p.308. "Louis Agassiz Fuertes", Oxford
Univ. Press, New York.)
Good birding,
Randolph Scott "Randy" Little
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