DISCOVER DELIGHTFUL DUNEDIN
Visit Caladesi Island
Departing Hourly from
Honeymoon Island State Park
W. End St. Rd. 586, Dunedin
(15 min. from downtown Dunedin)
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One of Dunedin’s Best Kept Secrets
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ARMSTON PARK
138 TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020
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916 Patricia Ave., Dunedin
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The small-size property that today
is a public park, located at the
southeast corner of Edgewater
Drive and Main Street across from
the Dunedin Marina and Edgewater Park
in Dunedin, was slated to become a gas
station in 1932. That is, until the ladies of
the then three-year-old Dunedin Garden
Club stepped in to purchase, protect and
maintain the west entrance to Dunedin’s
fledgling downtown as green space.
In the early 1980s, Margaret “Peggy”
Armston spearheaded the renovation of the
Garden Club’s little pocket park. She had
returned from the north end of Clearwater
Beach to live in Dunedin, the town where
her late husband William “Harry” Armston
Jr., who had been president of his family’s
construction company, had lived when
they met and where the couple had lived
as newlyweds.
Revitalizing Dunedin’s little park was
the perfect project for Peggy, who, besides
being an active community leader, was
restoring an 1880s Dunedin home, and
was an avid gardener.
Her own contributions, along with
those from the Dunedin Garden Club and
the City of Dunedin, made it possible to
commission one of the Armstons’ favorite
artists, Hal Stowers of Crystal Beach.
Peggy and Hal sat on a bench in the
park, while he sketched on a napkin his
proposed pedestrian and traffic friendly
designs for the new landscape, a fountain
and signage. Stower’s lighted fountain,
which Peggy named “Remembrances,”
was installed on that fateful day of
9-11-01. One-dimensional stainless steel
sculptures of four egrets and one heron
were positioned so that as viewers move
around the circular fountain, at least one
of the waterfowls will be seen in full view.
Dunedin’s reimagined little park that
bears the Armston name in memory
of Catherine G. and W.H. Armston Sr.
invites visitors to pause and reflect on
the peacefulness and beauty of nature. 9
Armston Park is a hidden treasure in Dunedin.
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