Browse Items (1 total) Tags: Wilson Park Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Robert Faries Photograph of Robert Faries (d. 11/17/1919). Faries was a manufacturer, inventor, and president of the Faries Manufacturing Co. He bought Wilson Park, and renamed it Faries Park in 1910. He founded the Faries Manufacturing Co. in 1881, which… Tags: 1080 E. Eldorado St., 1919, 521 E. Eldorado St., adjustable lamp holder, Autoposean attachment for cameras, biography, check-rower wire, Civil War, Decatur Herald and Review, Decatur IL, Faries Manufacturing Co., Faries Park, home electrical and gas fixtures, inventor, manufacturer, Photo File: Biography, revolving show window fixture, Robert Faries, Vandeventer, veteran, Walrus Manufacturing Co., Wilson Park Featured Item Photo of Nelson Park Bridge Photograph of Nelson Park Bridge taken looking north from Staley Clubhouse site toward Nelson Park.