- City:
- Kilgore, TX
- Site Type:
- Picnic and Other Facilities, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
After the discovery of oil here in the 1930s, this site was transformed into a makeshift tent city by thousands of people displaced by a deepening national depression. In an effort to control growth, city officials chose this site as the focus of an ambitious public works program in 1934. The park project, which included extensive rock work, was influenced by the planning and foresight of other Federal “New Deal” projects underway in Kilgore at the time (Kilgore Public Library and Kilgore College Administration Building). The park project was finished about 1936.
Source notes
https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5183009983/print
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on March 15, 2019.
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