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The Conservancy celebrated the official start of the Park's 53-acre expansion with a groundbreaking ceremony held at the Bathhouse on April 23. The historic Bathhouse and adjoining pool will be closed for construction for the next year, and will reopen for the swimming season in 2009.
City of Atlanta pools open this summer include:
Candler Park – 404-373-4849
Grant Park – 404-622-3041
Martin Luther King, Jr. Natatorium – 404-658-7330
Garden Hills – 404-848-7220
Chastain Park – 404-255-0863
For more information on the Bathhouse and pool project, email info@piedmontpark.org or call 404.875.7275.
Swimming has been a favorite activity in Piedmont Park since
before the park’s first bathhouse was built in 1911.
In 1973, a swimming pool was built and swimming
in the lake was banned.
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"During my childhood in the early 1970s,
Piedmont Park was one big, everlasting festival. There was the old
swimming pool and bathhouse where me and my brother Bird swam in
the summer, diving off the platforms and slipping down the giant
metal slides into the water. It was where we learned to play."
Celestine Sibley Fleming, writer/author
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