Lucy Depp Park was a 102-acre development named for Lucinda Depp (1844-1929), who had inherited the land from her father, Abraham (1791-1858), an emancipated African American man and central Ohio pioneer from Powhattan County, Virginia. Historically known as the Depp Settlement, the land was purchased by Robert Goode (1876-1957), a nephew of Lucy and her husband Thomas A. Whyte (1845-1919), who developed it as Lucy Depp Park in the mid-1920s. The park became a popular vacation spot as well as a home site for African American families from Columbus and elsewhere in segregated America before the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. A promotional brochure called it "Lucy Depp Park...For People Who Care; by the Beautiful Waters of O'Shaughnessy Reservoir and Twin Lakes."
