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Taylor Field

Pine Bluff, Jefferson County

Photograph of Taylor Field
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Pine Bluff wanted a minor league team, and the Brooklyn Dodgers agreed to make the Pine Bluff Judges a farm club if the city built a proper ballpark. Pinchback Taylor donated the land, and the WPA built the field and its U-shaped grandstand in 1939. It is still a regulation baseball field.

Kind of place
Parks and recreation
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
About 1939
Where
Pine Bluff, Jefferson County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

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Sources

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.