The McCullough family owned a farm at the intersection of Windsor Road and Race Street for more than half a century. Before them, George Walker farmed that ground for four decades. For thousands of years before a plow broke its soil sometime between 1853 and 1870, the land now occupied by Meadowbrook was a tallgrass prairie, an unbroken sea of grass. The prairie and savanna which cover most of the park are a living reminder of that long ago habitat.