Lodi’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Lodi. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗When a group of local families decided to establish a school in 1859, they settled on a site near present-day Cherokee Lane and Turner Road. In 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad was in the process of creating a new route, and settlers Ezekiel Lawrence, Reuben Wardrobe, A. C. Ayers, and John Magley offered a townsite of 160 acres (0.65 km2) to the railroad as an incentive to build a station there. The railroad received a "railroad reserve" of 12 acres (49,000 m2) in the middle of town, and surveyors began laying out streets in the area between Washington to Church and Locust to Walnut. Settlers flocked from nearby Woodbridge, Liberty City, and Galt including town founders John M. Burt and Dan Crist.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Lodi’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lodi’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewThe Modern Motel, Lodi, Calif (80…, c. 1930: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Lodi
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Lodi, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as The Modern Motel, Lodi, Calif (80183) (c. 1930) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (3), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.