Day 104

This cute little park was at the end of the block we lived on in Palo Alto. We were back in the old neighborhood so we stopped by. It was warm and sunny, and these leaves looked so green!

This little park is called Sarah Wallis Park, I was always curious about this, and also why so many things in the neighborhood (Mayfield Bakery & Cafe, Mayfield Soccer Complex, Mayfield Management, Mayfield Mortgage, etc.) have the name Mayfield (which is the name of my high school). Turns out, Mayfield was a township formed in 1855 in the area that is now South Palo Alto. It was eventually annexed by Palo Alto in 1925. Sarah Wallis was a Mayfield pioneer who championed women's rights. She was the leader of the local suffrage movement and became president of California's first suffrage association. In their later years, her and her husband (a state senator and judge) lived on the site of this park in a little cottage.

Cute story.