History – Timeline – Land Acquisitions – Dog Park – Future Plans – Photo Gallery – Open Space Preservation Open Space Preservation Shaffer Park was purchased with a United States Housing and Urban Development Space Grant,which designated it as open land in an urban area for recreational use. Around the same time that Shaffer Park...

History – Timeline – Land Acquisitions – Dog Park – Future Plans – Photo Gallery – Open Space Preservation Early Photos A View of the Turnpike From Shaffer Park 1970 Shaffer Park Plan Early Photos Early Photos Shaffer Cabin Front View Front View Rear View   The Dog Park   The pond View from the creek The pond View from...

Future Plans

History – Timeline – Land Acquisitions – Dog Park – Future Plans – Photo Gallery – Open Space Preservation Future Plans For the most part, Shaffer park will remain the same. The Carlisle Parks and Recreation Department intends for the park to remain what it is. The dog park will remain a dog park, the picnic area will remain as it...

History – Timeline – Land Acquisitions – Dog Park – Future Plans – Photo Gallery – Open Space Preservation   Dog Park The idea of dog parks as spaces specifically devoted to dog activity developed in California in 1979. ((http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=mes_capstones)) Since then dog...

History – Timeline – Land Acquisitions – Dog Park – Future Plans – Photo Gallery – Open Space Preservation Land Acquisitions Shaffer park has been slowly cut down in size since its acquirement in 1968 by the Borough of Carlisle from Charles M. Shaffer.   Originally, there was a detailed plan to attract visitors to this newly...

History – Timeline – Land Acquisitions – Dog Park – Future Plans – Photo Gallery – Open Space Preservation Timeline 1942 and 1946 – Dates on which Shaffer received 2 tracts of land and their respective deeds 1964 – Date of Shaffer’s death 1964 – Farmers Trust Company becomes Executor of Schaffer’s will 1968...