Sacramento's Land Park (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738529653)

Sacramento wasn't always so proud of the area now called Land Park. In fact, due to a notorious roadhouse at Sutterville and Riverside roads, the city took great pains to distance itself from here in the early days, calling the roadhouse and environs a "foul plaguespot" and a "sink of iniquity," and purposely excluding it from city borders! But times change, and the 1911 death of hotelier and philanthropist William Land set the stage for Land Park's remarkable renaissance. A bequest in Land's will directed that some monies be used to find "a recreation spot for the children and a pleasure ground for the poor," and so began the pleasant area of homes, parklands and riverfront paths we know today.

Author: Jocelyn Munroe Isidro
ISBN-10: 0738529656
ISBN-13: 9780738529653
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2005
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.60w x 0.36d