Kearney Boulevard is a seventeen-mile-long scenic highway located in Fresno County. The original eleven miles of palm, eucalyptus and oleander lined highway was opened from Fresno Street in downtown Fresno west to the property of Martin Theo Kearney in 1887. Keaney's so-called Chateau Fresno Park would be rebranded as "Kearney Park" following his death in 1903 and later became the first Fresno County Park in 1949. The Kearney Boulevard Arch at the westbound beginning of the corridor was erected by the city of Fresno in 1933. Part 1; the history of Kearney Boulevard Kearney Boulevard was opened as an eleven-mile-long public highway in April 1887 between Fresno Street in downtown Fresno and the property of Chateau Fresno owned by Martin Theodore Kearney. Kearney had established the Fruit Vale agricultural colony west of Fresno in 1889 which was intended to be subdivided to middle class buyers. What is now Kearney Boulevard can be seen on the 1891 Thompson At...
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