Grand opening of Vickroy Park. Slide dated June 1989. Hugh Kennedy Vickroy was born in 1841 in Fairfield, Pennsylvania. He was the First Superintendent of the University of Illinois Farm School and later became a fruit expert and farmer. He came to California in 1895 and ranched in Burbank until 1923. He was a successful a lemon producer in the Hollywood area, and became president of the Cahuenga Valley Lemon Exchange. In 1903, voters approved the incorporation of the City of Hollywood and Mr. Vickroy was elected as one of the city’s first members of the Board of Trustees. On September 16, 1924, Mr. Vickroy deeded a triangular shaped property to the City of Burbank as a gift for parkland. It was the old home site of one of the City’s pioneer families, the Tuso family. As a condition of the gift, the park would be named after Vickroy. The City of Burbank dedicated its first parkland, Vickroy Park, on May 31, 1925. He died on March 11, 1930 at age 88.
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image
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nonprojected graphic 35mm color slide
Identifier
islandora:2688 local: pio00724
Subject
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)--Parks and Recreation--Park facilities--Dedications--Vickroy Park--Vickroy, Hugh Kennedy--1980s
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