Lodi Lake Improvements for Recreation - Lodi CA

City:: Lodi, CA
Site Type:: Parks and Recreation
New Deal Agencies:: Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Designer:: Clinton Henning - City Engineer

Description

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.

Source notes

"New Park Area at Lake Planned. Lodi News Sentinel". August 10, 1939, page 1. "Report on Municipal Lake, Woodbridge Projects given". Lodi News Sentinel, September 1, 1939, page 4. "Many Improvements made to City With WPA Assistance". Lodi News Sentinel, September 16,1939, page 15. Submission by Suga Moriwaki, with the San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum