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 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 ExploreLodiCA@gmail.com.

Currently, the Lodi Women's History Trail includes: