The site was originally privately owned, and mostly used for illegal fishponds and unregulated graves. When, through the unflagging work of former township mayor Huang Chun-hai, the townspeople voluntarily allowed the land to be acquired by the government, the project was able to move ahead smoothly.
現址原屬私有地，大多是違法魚塭和亂葬崗，在前鄉長黃春海極力奔走下，鄉民自願被徵收，工程才得以順利進行。