Delano Park Conservancy

FEATHERS,TALONS, AND TALL TREES!🦉🌳 Get ready to look up!🦅Delano Park Conservancy invites you to a special Day in the Park on March 19, 2026, 9:00-Noon, for a celebration of the wings and wood that make our community beautiful. We are thrilled to host Raptor Trek, sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Decatur, Alabama, who will be bringing Red-tailed Hawks, Owls, and other stunning birds of prey for a live, up-close encounter from 10:30-11:30! Magical Memories Al Decatur, Alabama Historic Preservation Commission City of Decatur, Alabama - Government

Carolyn Cortner Smith built the stone structures in Delano Park 90 years ago as an architect for the Civilian Works Administration when Decatur was struggling during the depression. We had lost our biggest industry of the L&N Shops and Decatur's one crop, cotton, was only worth 5 cents a pound. Things were bleak in our town, and Carolyn Cortner Smith brought us the Rose Garden, the wading pool, and other stone structures that provided beauty and hope for our people.

Don't miss this fabulous podcast on the life of Alabama's first licensed female architect who changed the landscape of Delano Park and made the park more accessible and meaningful in 1934.