Took an early morning walk through this peaceful park and found out it has Crayola roots.
Back in the 1920s, Edwin Binney, the co-founder of Crayola crayons, owned a summer estate here. In 1927, he bought up 20+ acres of swampy land nearby. Not for crayons, but for the community. He and his daughters turned it into what became Binney Park and gifted it to the town by 1933.
They didn’t just hand over land. They built stone bridges, a pond, and those wide-open lawns that still make this place feel like a hidden gem.
📍 Binney Park, Old Greenwich, CT
Crayons, community, and conservation. Pretty solid legacy.
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