The subdivision map for South Curtis Oaks Subdivision No. 2, also owned by the Cutters, was filed on June 26, 1922. [Click here to see the subdivision brochure for South Curtis Oaks] The tract was bounded by 6th Avenue on the north, Franklin Boulevard on the east, l0th Avenue on the south and Curtis Park on the west. In August of 1922, J.C. Carly was constructing a home at the corner of Montgomery Way and Franklin Boulevard, next door to the site of the Curtis ranch homestead. The next house up from Carly on Montgomery was being built for Curtis H. and Leita Cutter. (Bee August 5, 1922.)

In 1923, Curtis H. Cutter was the Vice President of Carly Company. Also in 1923 George and Carrie Cutter moved to the home they had built at 2760 Curtis Way, pictured below.

The lot for the Cutters' home is on the corner of Franklin Boulevard. It encompasses some of the original Curtis Ranch homestead house plot. The back yard neighbors were J.C. and May Carly.

Family history is that J.C. Carly and Curtis H. Cutter partnered the development of South Curtis Oaks. Carly handled marketing and Cutter built quite a few of the homes and managed the Cutter Mill Lumber Company which supplied the lumber and millwork. There is also a family story that J.C. Carly was wont to boast that he had assured that the street car line would traverse Curtis Park by successfully promoting a candidate for mayor of Sacramento at the critical juncture.

The Heilbron Oaks subdivision map was filed in April, 1923. The cover of the subdivision brochure is to the left. The largest of all the developments to occur in the area, it included 241 lots. Its boundaries were 24th Street on the west, the Ingham tract above Castro Way on the north, Franklin Boulevard or the 28th Street Tract on the east, and the Curtis Oaks tract on the south. Mrs. William J. Manix, a daughter of a Heilbron pioneer and Mrs. J.M. Roberts, a granddaughter, built homes in the subdivision. (Illustrated Review of Sacramento, July 1924 Vol I, p.7.)

A Heilbron Oaks electrolier

The South Curtis Oaks Subdivision No. 4 map was recorded in December of 1923.

1923 was the year that the Y Street levee was finally removed. Seventy men and 160 head of horses and mules tackled the demolition of the earth embankment. Some of the earth removed was used to fill in low spots in the adjacent lands.

On Monday, August 25, 1924, the city board of education voted to purchase the 60.49 acre tract on the north east corner of Sutterville Road and Freeport Boulevard as the new home of the junior college. (Bee, August 26, 1924.)

The South Curtis Oaks Subdivision No. 5 map was recorded in April of 1925.

On September 2, 1925, George H. Cutter died at home. Among his many accomplishments was that he was one of the founders of Camp Sacramento, our municipal camp in the Sierra.

By September of 1925 the building of the new junior college was about one half complete. (Bee, Sept. 12, 1925.)

The next Curtis subdivision was South Curtis Oaks Subdivision No. 3. The map was filed in May of 1926, a month after the St. Francis Oaks subdivision. [Click here for a photo of the tract office for the latter subdivision.]

The dedication ceremony for the new junior college was held on October 26, 1926.

The map for South Curtis Oaks Subdivision No. 6 was recorded February 10, 1927.

The College Plaza Tract subdivision map, with the dedication of land for Brockway Park was filed March 8, 1928.

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