Company 8’s
Closed
2062 East Sonora Street Stockton CA 95206
Company 8’s Research
The House That Was
This fire house located at 2062 E. Sonora at Laurel Street was opened in 1924. Company 8 was the first station east of Wilson Way and serviced the areas known as ‘Fair Oaks’ and ‘Goat Valley.’ The homes of ‘Goat Valley’ meet the bare necessities of minimum home construction, many of which had dirt floors and no foundations. During the years of the Great Depression, the children of the area attended the Fair Oaks and Roosevelt schools and grew to be the working class of Stockton’s population. Most of Goat Valley, from Filbert Street to Highway 99 and from East Main Street to Western Pacific Railroad, was leveled and rebuilt anew in the 1940’s and the Fair Oaks area bought by the State of California to make way for the Cross Town Freeway. The removal of these homes and businesses in conjunction with a contract established with the Eastside Fire District caused the firehouse to be unnecessary at this location, and it was closed after 64 years of service on
(Peterson Research, D.O.T.)