Clark Park

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The Gettysburg Stone, a monument in Clark Park to the 60,000 Union soldiers treated there during the Civil War

Clark Park is a city-owned park in West Philadelphia. It is bordered by 43rd and 45th Streets, and by Baltimore and Woodland Avenues. Clark Park was established in 1894, and named after prominent banker Clarence Howard Clark, who donated the land to the city.

During the American Civil War, much of the land that later comprised Clark Park was the southernmost part of Satterlee Hospital, one of the largest Union Army hospitals of the Civil War. It was torn down after the war and the land reclaimed.

The modern park features a basketball court, playground area, an open field, many paths, and the only known life-sized statue of Charles Dickens in the world.