Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site, also known as Veterans Memorial Park, is a former

public works Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community. They include public buildings ( municipal buildings, sc ...

project listed on the

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. The site consists of two parcels located on Corner Street, between Pleasant Street and Columbus Street in

Lodi, Wisconsin Lodi ( ) is a city in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,189 at the 2020 census. Lodi is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Isaac Palmer founded the village of Lodi in 1846 in what was then t ...

, United States.

History

The stone retaining walls and stairways of the hillside below Lodi Primary School were a public works project from 1933 to 1938. The site was designed by the first professor of landscape architecture at the

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, Franz A. Aust. On the opposite side of a creek that separates the two parcels of land, Veteran's Memorial Park was completed in 1948. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 9, 2009. It was the featured listing in the

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's weekly list of April 17, 2009.

References

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