Enfield Park ('n grab) Traditional Cache
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This a pretty little park that is less than 3 weeks old in a nice
area in Bentonville. We have never been here before and didn't know
that this walking trail also takes you to The Bark Park dog park
for all you animal lovers. Please search during the daylight hours
because there is a house next door and a flashlight might be
annoying. We made this easy for kids to find alone.
The namesakes of this park were a Bentonville judge who received
the 2006 Arkansas Citizen Of The Year award and his wife. Judge
William Enfield was very active in his church and in civic affairs
in Northwest Arkansas. He was instrumental in establishing the
Miriam Enfield Community Center for Mental Health and the Rosen
Alternative Pest Control Center at the University of Arkansas. The
Rosen Center was dedicated in 1996 to develop and implement
effective, economical and environmentally responsible biological
alternatives to chemical management of agricultural pest problems.
He completed his first year of law school at the University of
Arkansas before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps reserve officers
training during WWII, and at 21, he was the youngest person to
graduate from the program. Serving in the South Pacific in 1942, he
participated in the Battle of Midway, a month-long raid beyond
Japanese lines on the island of Guadalcanal, and in the Battle of
Bougainville. While home on leave in 1943, he returned to
Fayetteville and asked his first love, Miriam Rosen, the
23-year-old daughter of University of Arkansas professor Harry
Rosen, to marry him. The couple had met at a Bella Vista dance a
few years earlier. When he finished his South Pacific assignment,
they married in 1944. He received his Juris Doctorate in February
1948 from The UA and established a law practice in Bentonville. He
also was very involved in the campaign to establish the Buffalo
River as a national river. We didn't know who he was until we did a
little research on the park after we decided to place a cache here.
Sounds like a good person who did valuable and significant things
in his life so this seems like a good place!.
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