Cutler Park is a large municipal park at the eastern end of

Visalia, California Visalia ( ) is a city in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California. The population was 141,384 as per the 2020 census. Visalia is the fifth-largest city in the San Joaquin Valley, the 42nd most populous in California, and 192nd in ...

near Venice Hills. The park covers of land. It is one of the largest Valley Oak Woodlands in

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History

In 1919, John Cutler Jr. donated a heavily wooded parcel to the County of Tulare for a park. Located adjacent to the St. Johns River on Houston Avenue, the park was named in honor of the donor's father, John cutler, an 1852 pioneer of Tulare County. The senior Cutler was a big farmer and one of Tulare County's first judges.Terry L. Ommen, Then & Now: Visalia, Stately Statues and Delightful Diversions, (Charleston, South Carolina: 2008):18.

References

*{{gnis, 241182 Parks in Tulare County, California Geography of Visalia, California Municipal parks in California