Stockham Park

Stockham Park or Stockham-Kingston Park is a 6.52 acre public park located at 4221 8th Avenue North in Birmingham's Kingston neighborhood. The park includes a baseball diamond with a pressbox and concession stand. There is a football gridiron marked in the outfield, and two small basketball courts in the southeast corner of the park. A playground adjoins a picnic pavilion, which is equipped with a barbecue grill.

In the 1930s workers for the Civil Works Administration rebuilt the park's baseball diamond, expanded the tennis courts, leveled a wooded area and improved drainage ditches, trimmed trees and added a crushed slag walkway. A 29-year-old Black man, George Taylor was shot to death in an alley near the park on August 23, 1934, after reportedly threatening three women.

In 2021 the Live HealthSmart Alabama initiative spearheaded significant improvements to the park, including new sidewalks and ramps, bus shelters, landscaping, repainting of park structures, and improved lighting.

References

• Patchen, Tyler (July 8, 2021) "Live HealthSmart Alabama project makes improvements in Kingston neighborhood." Birmingham Business Journal