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I fail to find anything about Hobson City Park except in more modern era's it exists re-named. Trolley era ? It was owned by the Trolley Company.

Its development and progress at the time of the incorporation of Hobson City, its population consisted of 135 people or 12 families. There has been corresponding growth and development of residential and business section, of recreational facilities, of schools, churches and cultural organizations. In addition to continuously developing and improving residential and business sections, Hobson City has developed a beautiful park of seventeen and a half acres situated at the foot of the Blue Mountain Ridge. This park bears the name of Booker T. Washington. This park has a swimming pool, tennis court, a baseball diamond, and a bowling alley, as well as a pavilion for dancing or picnicking. Its principle street is designed as Carver Drive, having been named after the worlds renowned Negro scientist. In 1905, Professor C. E. Hanna organized the first school, known as the Hobson City and Oxford Academy with about seventy pupils. One of the outstanding features for which the school has received recognition from the State and County is its handcraft and manual training projects. Citizens of this community take pride in sending their children to Hobson City Training School. Quite a number of these students from the Hobson City Training School are found studying at many colleges and institutions of higher learning in this country. The people of Hobson City are devoutly religious, and at the present time has four churches, consisting of three denominations: Methodist, Baptist, and Church of God.

The leaders in the public affairs of Hobson City from the very beginning have sought to inspire its people with the duty of patriotism, which they emphasized by selecting Richard P. Hobson, by which the town was to be named and called. They have ever sought to inculcate in their people the doctrine that to the industrious and humble come.