The City of Boise has many things to boast about, but few can compare with the quiet charm of the Julia Davis Park. The story behind Julia Davis Park begins in 1862 when two orphaned brothers, Tom and Frank Davis, joined with a group of 75 men in Cincinnati, Ohio, and headed west hoping to strike gold. As an early Boise pioneer, Tom Davis helped lay out the blueprint of the city and owned and developed thousands of acres of agricultural property.
Julia McCrumb came to the Boise Valley from Ontario, Canada, to visit relatives in the summer of 1869. Two years later, she and Tom Davis were married and the couple eventually had six children. Julia, known for her kindness and gracious hospitality, would welcome and assist emigrants traveling on the Oregon Trail as they stopped their wagons along the river to rest from their journey across the high desert. She died in the autumn of 1907 at the age of 60, after assisting a traveler who may have had typhoid fever.
Upon deeding the property in memory of his wife, Tom Davis required that the land would forever be used for public park purposes, and because of that gracious dedication to the future culture of Boise, it makes the list of Boyles Boise: 52 things to do and see.
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