The smallest park in the world is less than the size of beds and it "lives" leprechaun

Mill Ends Park - a miniature city park in the US city of Portland, Oregon. It is a "circle" at the intersection of two streets with vegetation inside diameter of 0, 61 m and an area of ​​0, 292 square meters. m. It is the smallest park in the world (officially recognized as such in 1971 and submitted to the Guinness Book of Records).





The park was established in 1948, local newspaper columnist Dick Fagan Oregon Journal. At this point, it planned to deliver a lamppost, but this was not done, and dug the hole began to grow weeds. Then Fagan office window which overlooks the intersection, where it was planned to put the pillar, planted flowers in the hole.





The park was dedicated to St. Patrick's Day and was called "the only place of residence leprechaun west of Ireland." Fagan told a fantastic story of the park grounds. As if he saw through the window is not just a hole, and a leprechaun who delved into it. He went out and caught him, which meant that he earned a desire that he has to fulfill. Fagan wished currently own park, but does not have his size, so leprechaun gave him the hole. Over the next two decades, Fagan often described miniature park and allegedly became live in it a leprechaun in his column in the newspaper. Name leprechaun, he said, was Patrick O'Toole, and could only see his own Fagan.





Fagan died in 1969, but since then the park continues to exist, it cared about other people. In 1976, he officially recognized the city park.







via factroom.ru