Thursday, November 4, 2010
Civic Association
The members of the wynnefeild heights civic association is mad up of 10 people. Juanita Ball, Michael McClary, Marcia Schvom, Howard Cohen, Monica Hawkins, Terrance & Corina Adkins, Michael Washington, Earl Patterson and Gail Young. Their job is to look out for the communities best interest. They plan community service days, block clean up days. And many other fundraisers to help benefit the up brining of the community, and to help make the community a tight nit safe community.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
About the community
The semi- suburban neighborhood Wynnefeild heights bordering on City Avenue was built in the late 1950s. The area "Wynnefield" was named after William Penn's physician Thomas Wynne. He built his home, called “Wynnestay,” at 52nd Street and Woodbine Avenue in 1690. Originally a part of Delaware County later known as Balwynne Park or Woodside Park. The Woodside Park portion is now the separate community of Wynnefield Heights. Woodside Park originally was an amusement park in 1897 but closed in 1955. In the 1900's Wynnefield Heights was a large upscale community consisting largely of immigrants from Russia, Germany, and other places. In the 1960's Wynnefield in general became populated with African Americans. The development of Wynnefield after the 1960s is due to the influence of the late Katie B. Jackson who is the founder of the "Wynnefield Academy” a private, co-educational PK-4 elementary school in 1975. Har Zion Synagogue was also a resident of the area, built on 54th & Wynnefield Ave in 1924.
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