[2] On March 15, 2006, the Decatur Waterworks was added to the National Register of Historic Places, due to its former industrial significance as a water works, its political importance as Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, and its use as a public park.

The provenance of the property becomes unclear at that point as the DeKalb Historical Society notes show that the J.

In any case, records show that a waterworks construction project was completed on the property by December 1907.

Its use as a public park began in the 1930s when a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project built a number of recreational amenities on the site.

These amenities included granite benches, cooking grills, tables and a stone bridge over Burnt Fork Creek.

DeKalb used revenue from the facility to fund a county-wide treatment plant in the Dunwoody area that uses water from the Chattahoochee River.

By the mid-1960s the lakes had begun to fill with silt and there were complaints of flooding from local residents who lived in the adjacent neighborhoods that were built in the 1950s and 1960s.