City Park - Kilgore, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 32° 23.066 W 094° 52.267
15S E 323991 N 3584587
The WPA did extensive rock work to create this City Park.
Waymark Code: WM107M6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/15/2019
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Historical Marker:
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.
Project type: Park structure/building (other than lodge)
Date built or created: 1936
Location: Kilgore, TX City Park
City: Kilgore
Condition: In need of renovation/repair
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