Periodically, calls for changing the name of the park would be made. In 1909, Preston Cocke, a well-known Richmond lawyer, proposed the park be renamed Maury Park in honor of Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas. In 1910, claiming that there is no fitness in the name [Chimborazo] applied to anything in Richmond, a call was made to rename the park Bloody Run Park in honor of the Battle of Bloody Run which took place nearby in 1656.