Fallingbrook’s First Park and School

In late 1986, Mayor Peter Clark phoned up Peter McNamara, the first president of the Fallingbrook Community Association, to discuss the plans for Fallingbrook’s first park, Des Pionniers. The school board decided they needed more room for their school and had offered the Township $200,000 to buy a few acres of parkland. Mayor Clark said with that money, we could start the park much sooner than otherwise, and did the residents agree with the decision? In those days there was a lot of informal consultation from the Township about planning matters. The recreation committee then began meeting at Dick Mohn’s house to lay out the plans for the park. Keith Nesbitt wanted to build a large climbing tower in one corner, and hence it was unofficially named Tower Park. The tower never made it any farther, but the name still appeared on some municipal maps.