Show early recreation spots the earliest form of a public preserve devoted dev oteI to outdoor recreation in the territory of the present united states was a city park boston common acquired in 1634 the next example of public action of this kind covered a field related to that at present usually held by state agencies the reservation to the people for fishing and fow fowling link by an ordinance of the massachusetts bay colony in agh of great ponda 11 water surfaces of bf ten acres or adire the first state part park of larger size set apart primarily for recreation was one which to Is now a famous nat lonni park yosemite congress ceded it to california in ma and later it was returned to federal control cont tol ioL |