The Lodi Women's History Trail
In 2018 a group of Lodi residents assembled to begin research on historically important Lodi women. They called themselves the Lodi Women's Herstory Team and sought to bring local women, who were often minimized or ignored by then-current historians, into current memory. The Team decided on these criteria to include individual candidates on the new Lodi Women's History Trail:
The Team also included on the Trail the Cycles of Suffrage mural and groups of women who made a difference, such as the Woman's Club, the Women's Center, and the Lodi Comets motorcycle club.
Today the Lodi Women's Herstory Team recognizes that no amount of kitchen-table research could uncover every woman or women's group who deserves to be included on the Trail. If you know of someone who meets the above criteria and would like to propose her for consideration, please email the Herstory Team at [email protected].
Currently, the Lodi Women's History Trail includes:
- the woman must be deceased
- the woman must have lived or worked a significant length of time in Lodi
- the woman, in the context of her time, must have done something unexpected that defined Lodi or otherwise demonstrated leadership, endurance through difficult circumstances, or unusual compassion.
The Team also included on the Trail the Cycles of Suffrage mural and groups of women who made a difference, such as the Woman's Club, the Women's Center, and the Lodi Comets motorcycle club.
Today the Lodi Women's Herstory Team recognizes that no amount of kitchen-table research could uncover every woman or women's group who deserves to be included on the Trail. If you know of someone who meets the above criteria and would like to propose her for consideration, please email the Herstory Team at [email protected].
Currently, the Lodi Women's History Trail includes:
- Edith Barbee Buchanan, nurse and hospital administrator
- Erma Berry Reese, educator
- Amy Lawrence Boynton, librarian
- Thirza Browne Cole, nurse and hospital administrator
- Comets motorcycle club
- Celia Crocker Thompson, photographer
- Cycles of Suffrage mural
- Medora Davidson Johnson, founder of Micke Grove's history museum
- Bertha de Almado Clark, Queen Zinfandel of Lodi's 1907 Tokay Grape Carnival
- Gertie de Force Cluff, publisher
- Laura de Force Gordon, attorney and suffragist
- Mamie Guthrie Pallesen, M.D.
- Julia Harrison Micke, philanthropist
- Sabra Hopper Housh, hotel operator
- Susan Jahant Bawden, funeral director and cemetery owner
- Addine LeMoin Beckman, business owner
- The Lodi Women's Center
- Yoshino Nakano Masui, picture bride and WWII internee
- Daisy Pleas, watchmaker
- Lillian Pleas Cunningham Rees, opera singer
- Santos Rios Olvera, immigration activist
- Mary Sollars Ralls, seamstress and telephone operator
- Woman's Club of Lodi
- Mabel Yank Richey, mayor