• City Improvements: water mains, sewers, streets, gutters, curbs - Lodi CA
    The city of Lodi and the WPA constructed and installed 15.8 miles of water mains, 101 fire hydrants, 8.8 miles of sanitary sewers and manholes, 12,230 feet of storm drains and manholes, catch basins. Almost every street and alley has been graded and oiled, 21.5 miles of curbs and gutters constructed, sludge disposal plant decanter constructed, Lockeford Street and School Street work finished.
  • Emerson School - Lodi CA
    The CWA painted inside and outside of Emerson School. Emerson Park has replaced Emerson School. The palm trees in the park show where the entrance to the school once was.
  • Hutchins Street Square/Old Lodi High School Tennis Courts and Girls' Gym Improvements - Lodi CA
    Hutchins Street Square, a community center, was originally Lodi High School. The CWA improved the girls' gym and tennis courts at the high school in 1934. The tennis courts have now become a large grassy area that is currently used for art shows, the Sandhill Crane Festival, and the July 4 celebration. The girls' gym of 1934 was converted in the 1990s into a senior citizen's center. The boys' gym is now used as a large hall with patio, where dinners and other civic functions are held. A pool separated the boys' and girls' gyms in 1934 and citizens still use...
  • Lodi Lake Improvements for Recreation - Lodi CA
    The WPA added 12 acres of parkland to the existing park at Lodi Lake, and a bridge built to link the two parcels of land. Also with the help of WPA funds and 26 men over 20 months, the city constructed dressing rooms, an office building, grading and oil surfacing of the park roads, a parking lot, the installation of riprap, dredging, painting of boats and benches and tables.
  • Micke Grove Park - Maintenance and Improvements - Lodi CA
    Like Lodi Lake and other parks in Lodi, Micke Grove Park had cemented rock curbs and gutters built by the CWA 1934. Some have been replaced but many still exist. In addition, seventy men employed by the WPA built and installed: five concrete picnic benches, a new baseball diamond, a caretaker cottage, two comfort stations, a wading pool, a water system, five acres of lawns, six horseshoe courts, six softball courts, two double tennis courts, three bocce ball courts, four volleyball courts, and one mile of fencing. In the years since the 1930s, many of the original features of the park have been...
  • Mokelumne River Flood Control/Mosquito Abatement - Lodi CA
    The Woodbridge Dam, built in the 1890s, created Lodi Lake, along the Mokelumne River in Lodi. The New Deal project of "flood control on the Mokelumne River, mosquito abatement, and erosion control" consisted of the removal of brush, downed trees, and the elimination of stagnant pools along the Mokelumne River between the Woodbridge Dam and the Cherokee Lane bridge, especially at Lodi Lake. CWA workers installed riprap for erosion control at Lodi Lake and built berms for flood control. CWA workers cleared the irrigation ditches of weeds.
  • National Guard Armory - Lodi CA
    Originally built and used as an armory for the National Guard, the building hosted the first wave of eight hundred Lodians of Japanese descent on May 18, 1943, who assembled there for the bus trip to the Stockton Fairgrounds Assembly Center before going to Rohwer War Relocation Camp in Arkansas. During and after the Second World War, the National Guard used the Armory for training and storing equipment. In 2002, the City of Lodi leased it for five years, with the intention of using it for recreation. In 2009, an adult women's dodgeball league began to play there while the...
  • Post Office - Lodi CA
    Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1935.