Stribley Park Improvements – Stockton CA

City:
Stockton, CA

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Picnic and Other Facilities, Athletic Courts and Fields, Landscaping and Tree Planting

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1938

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
Unknown

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided labor to improve Stockton’s Stribley Park in 1938. The improvement project was one of several WPA efforts in the City.

“It is reported that $21,903 will be spent in a city-wide improvement program of municipal playground facilities at Stockton, Calif., which is under way as a WPA project,” a contemporary journalist reported in June 1938. “Two tennis courts will be constructed at Stribley Park and two at the Municipal Baths.”

The park still exists today. Facilities include baseball diamonds and picnic areas. It appears as though the tennis courts mentioned above were refurbished as handball courts.

Source notes

“Playground Development at Stockton,” Parks &Recreation, June 1938.

Site originally submitted by Gray Brechin on June 10, 2022.

Location Info


1760 E Sonora St.
Stockton, CA 95205

Coordinates: 37.95225, -121.26628

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