RM: Buffalo Park

4501 N. California Ave. / Potawatomi people once had camps along the Chicago River before their forced removal in 1833 / Land later used for horse pastures and vegetable farms / Half-mile oval track built nearby in the late 1800s for cycling, horse racing and other events / Grandstand burned in 1904 / Buffalo Park named for its 16-foot-tall concrete fountain built in 1917 with three enormous buffalo heads / Photo shows neighborhood resident Ruth Robbins at the fountain in 1924 / Robbins later recalled playing here as a child with her dolls and an umbrella beneath the water trickling from the buffalo heads / Fountain deteriorated and was eventually demolished