Pekin Park District - Illinois

Pekinparkdistrict18 Nov, 2022Business

Pekin?s first park system actually emerged around 1882 after Pekin Artesian Well Co. failed at making a profit on extracting and selling the supposed medicinal mineral water believed to be in the aquifer beneath it. Obviously, the elixir didn?t do what they promoted and cured ?all that ails you? but it did set the foundation to fill a need in the community and a privately funded park was created that included a bathhouse, pagoda, floating bandshell, fountain and swimming pools heated by steam.