Type Memorial park Opening 2003 Phone +886 6 238 9673 | Location East, Tainan, Taiwan Floor area 3 hectares | |
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Address 701, Taiwan, Tainan City, East District, 崇明里文化中心對面 Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hours Similar Dadong night market, Shueipingwun Park, 延平郡王祠 Koxinga, Temple of the Five Concubines, Taiwan Confucian Temple | ||
Barclay memorial park tainan taiwan
The Barclay Memorial Park (Chinese: 巴克禮紀念公園; pinyin: Bākèlǐ Jìniàn Gōngyuán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pa-khek-lé Kì-liām Kong-hn̂g) is a memorial park in Chongming Village, East District, Tainan, Taiwan.
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Name
The park was named after Thomas Barclay, a British missionary to Taiwan in 1875-1935.
History
In 1993, the park area was actually designed to be Park No. 18 by Tainan City Government in which the city government should carry out the construction project within the same year. However, due to land ownership disputes between Tainan City and Tainan County, the land failed to be developed which caused the park to remain idle since then. After a decade without proper management, the park was flooded with wild plants and trashes, which eventually turned out to be a landfill.
In 2001, the chief of Chongming Village had an idea of rejuvenate the park area and turn it into a beautiful park. Thus soon afterwards, cleanup efforts was initiated by him and his friends, gradually expanded to 57 volunteers. Eventually, more and more people helped to rebuild the park. Vehicles coming in and out to dispose the rubbish. They built the slopes of the creek course, repaved the walking paths, trimmed the plants and repolulated the park with fireflies. The park was eventually fully established in 2003 and renamed Barclay Memorial Park.
Geography
The memorial park covers an area of around 3 hectares.