knew theyors in 1858 would be to supply town, so they came up to this area to set up a small town. they were stunned by the beauty of these up and it rocks -- upended rocks pair they said we should call this the garden of the gods, and that name stuck. this is truly an extraordinary 80 park. , the wisdom of carl's perkins was to give this gift to the city of colorado springs that it would remain free to the people forever. this park isory of about a gift that really all is after our founders. one provided a very large section of our existing parks department today. likes that perkins philosophy, so he informed his children that is what he is going to do. charles perkins was a friend of general palmer's, and he owned the burlington railroad, probably speculated on developing some of this land. so because palmer was engaged in wanting to make certain that the right environment for the people who were going to live here, he adopted his same philosophy. so when it came time to do something with this property, it was easy for him to make the decision that it would stay a park and be for