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Tour of Stockton City Hall - the area
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Let's start the tour with Civic Center Square,
named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza in 1989.
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| The Civic Auditorium, located to the west of the square, is dedicated to the memory of those who served in World War I. On the plaza in front of the Auditorium, between the two golden bears, is an obelisk dedicated on July 5, 1981 to Stockton's veterans of all armed conflicts. |
On the north side of the square is the City of Stockton's memorial to Vietnam Veterans. It was donated to the City in 1973 by the local Vietnamese community, and is the first one in the country.
The flagpole on the north side of City Hall was dedicated in 1947, and was placed in memory of Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941. |
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 Civic Court and the parking area along Fremont Street between Center and El Dorado used to be an extension of McLeod Lake; it housed a marina and boaters from the Bay Area were regular visitors. When Fremont Street was reconstructed and realigned in 1942 to install sanitary and storm sewers, the area was filled in and Civic Court was constructed. |
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 Across the street to the west of City Hall is McLeod Lake Park, where strollers can visit the Firefighter's Memorial, dedicated October 11, 1998 to those who gave their lives in the fire service to the City of Stockton. |
This park is also the site of a building that was constructed originally in 1926
to house the City's fire alarm system. The Stockton CVB located there in 1980, until 2003.
Andrew McLeod was one of the first white trappers to visit this area in the early 1800s as an employee of the Hudson Bay Company, and has lent his name to a street as well as a lake within the City's limits.
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City Hall was built as a result of a bond issue in 1920. Construction began in 1925 and the first council meeting was held there on October 25, 1926. The building was dedicated to "Truth, Liberty, Toleration" by the Native Sons of the Golden West on December 3, 1926.
City Hall is located on Lindsay Point, so named for Thomas Lindsay, who built the first building in what later became Stockton in August 1844. Mr. Lindsay was killed by Native Americans and buried by other settlers. Lindsay Point was formed by the junction of McLeod's Lake and Miner's Channel, and is a California Registered Historical Landmark.
City Hall was built in the spirit of the "City Beautiful movement and provides an outstanding example of 1920's construction techniques and design. The building's renaissance revival style was determined by a collaboration of Stockton and San Francisco architects, and was designated a Stockton Historical Landmark by the City Council in 1983.
The lobby of City Hall has brochures for downtown walking tours that include some of the above information. |
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