During Wichita’s real estate boom days of the 1880s, when the city was known as the "Peerless Princess of the Plains",http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/local_history/tihen/pdf/People&Places/Peerless_Princess.PDF mule-drawn streetcars traveled up and down Douglas Avenue taking residents to and from work and shopping. A college was planned for the area where the park now is, and plans changed. The area that is now College Hill Park served as the Wichita Country Club from 1901–1912. It was redeveloped from an overgrown golf course into its current park configuration, including its swimming pool, via WPA funds during the Great Depression.
