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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FOR NOVEMBER 2023 ONLY
WE GOT A MATCH GRANT!
THANKS TO THE KANSAS RURAL COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION, AND SPONSORED BY THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE $20,000 OR MORE!
EVERY DOLLAR DONATED ONLINE IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER WILL BE MATCHED UP TO $10,000—BUT ONLY WITH YOUR HELP!
AND FOR THE ESKRIDGE PARK FOUNDATION DONORS ONLY, WE STILL HAVE A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TAX CREDITS AVAILABLE—SO IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN GETTING 70% OF YOUR DONATION BACK, EMAIL TODAY! FOR MORE DETAILS, SCROLL DOWN.
Our Latest News in 2023
Community Service Tax Credit Grant Recipients 2022-23!!!
In August, 2022 we received a special kind of grant that benefits YOU—our supporters and donors! The Community Service Tax Credit Grant! With an award of $30,000 in tax credits, anyone who donates $250 or more is eligible to receive a 70% return on their State taxes in the following year. In example, if you donated $1000, you’ll receive $700 back. That’s amazing!
14 Donors have already benefitted from this rare opportunity! We still have $11,250 in tax credits remaining, which means we can still accept $15,357 in donations for 2023! So act now to take advantage before they run out.
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 last Saturday of October every year!
2024 is our 100th year, so be sure to check it out!
