Flinn Park

Flinn Park is directly across from the Kensington Post Office. The park was named after Nancy (“Nannie”) Rutherford Flinn, a popular teacher of Kensington children from 1919 to 1953, whose house once stood on this land. Ms. Flinn was also a charter member of the Woman’s Community Club of Kensington. After her death, the Town purchased her home and discovered it was badly damaged by termites. Consiquently, the Town had it burned down as an exercise for the Fire Department. Flinn Park was created. There is now a brick path that leads to an old grinding stone donated to the town of Kensington by Jim Bullard, a descendant of Alfred Ray. The Ray farm once spread between Kensington and Forest Glen. The Mill Stone was originally used along the stream which runs next to Kensington Parkway, on the Alfred Ray farm near Saul Road.