Eskridge City Park, Kansas
Created in 1903, the Eskridge Park has a long history of social and community events. In the early 1909, the octagonal bandstand was built, just in time for the town’s 40th Anniversary ‘Home Coming’ Celebration. Over 5,000 fine folks attended the event.
In 2016, the bandstand and park were placed on the National Historic Registry. Around this time, the Eskridge Park Foundation was also created. The Foundation's goals are to restore, preserve, improve and maintain the park. Among our plans are restoring the historic bandstand, installing new playground, restroom, sidewalks, picnic amenities, lighting, and improving the landscape, among many other details.
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Our Latest News
Pursuing a Major Grant
We just applied for a Community Development Block (CDBG) Grant on November 1st, 2024. This grant will quadruple our money! With a $100,000 Park Foundation Match, combined with a $50,000 City of Eskridge contribution, we will get an additional $450,000!
That’s a $600,000 budget! With this, we hope to replace our playground mulch with long-lasting rubber mulch, remodel our restroom into ADA and family friendly facilities, renovate our tennis court into a multipurpose tennis, basketball, and pickle ball court.
SEED Grant—we got it!!
With the valiant efforts of the Wabaunsee County Office of Economic Development, the EPF and 4 other WabCo entities, applied for a county-wide SEED grant of $50,000 in Sept of 2022. The 5 entities would share the $50,000 between them.
With a minor hiccup and delay due to less available funding than originally anticipated, we heard the wonderful news—we got the grant and the EPF was awarded the full $10,000!! With our personal match of $5,000, this money was used toward a beautiful, 20 ft x 5 ft hand-stacked stone entry sign built by Koch Construction Specialties. Pictured.
Our Design
In 2020, we set our vision down on paper, so that we could share them with you. Landscape Architect and green-space magician, Dea Brokesh of LDB Landscape Architecture and Engineering, organized our tangle of ideas and dreams into a beautifully rendered drawing with several side view examples. Knowing how important the park history was to us, she also took the time to transfer an old Honoraria hanging in City Hall into a digital map so that the information would never be lost to us.
Eskridge Fall Festival
The 2024 Eskridge Fall Festival will be our 100th Festival!!!
The Festival is always the last Saturday of October. This year, October 26, 2024!
