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Pine Banks is a 107.5-acre (0.435 km2) park located in the cities of Malden and Melrose, Massachusetts. It was donated by former Mayor of Malden Elisha S. Converse to be used "forever as a public park". The agreement was that both towns had equal ownership, responsibility, and power, which is still the case today; the non–profit Board of Trustees owns the park, with equal representation from both cities.
The land of the park area was once owned by the Wampanoag Native American Tribe. It was later owned by the Lynde family in the early 18th century, and then the Converse Family (1881) who established it as the public park that it is today. The Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and opened to the public in 1889. [1]