Lincoln Park in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 was originally created by the City of Los Angeles in 1881, from land donated by Griffith J. Griffith

Griffith J. Griffith

Griffith Jenkins Griffith was a Welsh-American industrialist and philanthropist. After amassing a significant fortune from a mining syndicate in the 1880s, Griffith donated to the City of Los Angeles which became Griffith Park, and he bequeathed the money to build the park's Greek Theatre and...

. It was one of Los Angeles' first parks. It was originally called East Los Angeles Park, then Eastlake Park in 1901. On May 19, 1917, the park was renamed Lincoln Park after Lincoln High School

Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles, California)

Abraham Lincoln High School, usually referred to simply as Lincoln High School, is a secondary school located in the Lincoln Heights district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is located in the East Los Angeles-area community, surrounded by El Sereno, Chinatown, Boyle Heights and...

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The park contains a large large lake (Lincoln Park Lake; originally East Lake), a recreation center, a senior center, a playground, picnic tables, and ball fields.

The park is located at the intersection of Valley Boulevard

Valley Boulevard

Valley Boulevard is a street in Southern California, running east from Los Angeles to Pomona, where it becomes Holt Boulevard, and a continuation from Fontana to Colton. It generally parallels Interstate 10 and State Route 60, and is the original alignment of U.S. Route 60...

and Mission Road, and is served by Metro lines 76, 78, 79 and 378.