Suburban Residential Subdivision Begins

On September 22, 1887 the first subdivision map for development in Oak Park was filed. A tiny sliver of that subdivision, east of Franklin Boulevard and north of 4th Avenue, is within current day Curtis Park. 22/

On September 28, 1887 the first major subdivision map within Curtis Park, for Highland Park, was filed. Highland Park extends south from Broadway to Castro Way and east from about 23 Street to the east side of 26th Street. 23/ In 1888 the first Highland Park School was constructed across from what is now the 24th Street Theatre at Sierra 2. 24/

On August 22, 1888 the subdivision map for Oak Grove, on the eastern border of Curtis Park, west of Franklin, south of Marshall Way, and North of 11th Avenue, was filed. 25/

The first electric street car rail service in Sacramento ran out to Oak Park in February 1891.26/
The following year, 1892, on the day after Christmas, Carrie Curtis, daughter of William and Susie Curtis, married George H. Cutter. Cutter was the scion of another pioneer farming family. 27/

In 1893, August Heilbron died.28/

The Curtis Ranch House
William Curtis was elected to the County Board of Supervisors in 1893. He served for eight years and served as chairman of that body his last two years. He was a Republican, remembered for improving the county's roads. 29/
William Curtis

In March of 1897 Sarah Edwards died. 30/


In 1902 a new two room Highland Park school house was constructed. 31/

In 1903, as shown on the following map, the Curtis Park neighborhood was known as Highland Park.

Highland Park

In February of 1904 the 28th Street Tract subdivision map was filed. The tract had 57 lots and extended a block west of present day Franklin Boulevard on present day 4th Avenue and Marshall Way. 32/
At the end of February, the Sacramento River levee broke south of Sutterville, at the Edwards' riverside ranch. The river flooded much of present day Sacramento south of the Broadway levee. Newspaper pictures show standing water in the City Cemetary and St. Joseph's Cemetary. Click here to see newspaper articles on the flood.

In March of 1904 the Board of the Protestant Orphan Asylum purchased the John Charles Tract south of present day William Curtis Park. 33/ The Orphan Asylum, now (the Sacramento Children's Home), thus began its long association with Curtis Park.
1904 was also the year that the 21st Street Car line was extended to Highland Park34/ and there were numerous newspaper articles about the interactions of horse carriages and pedestrians with the emergent motorists. 35/

On December 12, 1905, Susie Curtis, age 62, died. 36/

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