Judge Edmund F. Dunne, ex-Chief Justice of Arizona, founded the Catholic Colony of San Antonio, Florida, in 1881. He was a distinguished Catholic layman, a famous jurist, an editor, linguist, horticulturist, world traveler, and lifelong scholar and educator. The restoration of the park in the heart of the community almost 100 years after its founding served as a memorial to Judge Dunne and was dedicated in the Bicentennial Year 1976 through the cooperative efforts of the citizens of San Antonio and the Bicentennial Commission of Florida.