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This 1925 photograph looks south, across Duck Lake and up toward the Charles Swanston Memorial statue and William Land Park’s Community Clubhouse. Upon Land’s death in December 1911, 250,000 dollars were bequeathed via the hotelier’s last will and testament to the City of Sacramento “to purchase a public park within suitable distance of said City of Sacramento, the title to which shall be vested in the City of Sacramento, and which public park shall be known as and called ‘William Land Park’…” The park’s creation hadn’t actually been set into motion until 1922, when the city spent 150,000 dollars on the Swanston-McDevitt tract, 238.26 acres of which would be set aside for the park. The tract’s majority owner was Charles Swanston, a cattleman and a native of Ohio who owned a total of 1,400 acres of land below the city and along the Sacramento River.
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