Ask Howard • 03-17-23
dallasvoice.comThe mythical healing springs of Reverchon Park Welcome at last to the arrival of the wearin’ of the green, gents and ladies!
Springtime’s officially here as of March 20. Have any of y’all visited our very own Reverchon Park lately in all its blooming glory — in the daylight hours, that is, when one’s erection isn’t necessarily being embedded, post-midnight, inside some anonymous stranger’s orifice behind the honeysuckle bushes?Reverchon Park, established way back in 1914 (the year WWI began), was Dallas’s first civic-planned greenspace, with its 46 acres of wooded oak and pecan groves.
It was originally titled Turtle Creek Park but in 1915 received the name for which we know it by today, an homage to Dallas’s famed frontier botanist, Julien Reverchon.
But the park’s early establishment was hardly due to any visionary, forward-thinking by city planners. They simply viewed the new park as an easy, money-making venture due to the mythical healing properties of its hot springs — now long ago capped and buried — which had already become legendary.
