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Cisler bricks in place on a pathway in Cisler Terrace Park in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. Cisler Park is a small park with brick paved walkways at the corner of Seventh and Ephriam Cutler streets. It is named for the brick home that overlooks the park, which was once the home's front yard. Homeowner Lillian Cisler approached the Civitan Club before her death in 1993 about landscaping the yard for public use. The image was taken by Michael D. Williams in the summer of 1999.
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For information about the brick industry in Ohio, see: The Paving Brick Industry in Ohio by Steven D. Blankenbeker (Ohio Division of Geological Survey, Report on Ohio Mineral Industries, 1998).
Information from: Status of Our Parks by Jasmine Rogers (The Marietta Times, 21 September 2013). For several years up until Cisler's passing, the club maintained the park under Cisler's ownership. But at her passing, Cisler willed the park to the City of Marietta under the stipulation that it remain a park. Lillian was not the only Cisler known for her charitable contributions. Her father Tom Cisler was the owner of Marietta's Cisler Brick Yard. Where the YMCA is all back through the Frontier Shopping Center was the Cisler Brick Yard. The also owned the hill where Marietta Middle School is, said Marietta City Councilman Harley Noland. While most of the brick yard was sold off over time, Tom gifted the land near Cisler Terrace Park that the YMCA now sits on, said Noland.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Bricks in a pathway; the brick shown is engraved with "Cisler Mariettao". Cisler Terrace Park in Marietta, Ohio.