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Date added: April 28, 2022; Modified: May 9, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work at Grand Canyon Village, including construction of the Community Building, with funds from the Public Works Administration (PWA) and under the direction of the National Park Service (NPS). The NPS CCC… read more
Date added: April 28, 2022; Modified: May 9, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted development work at Grand Canyon National Park, 1933-42, including extensive reconstruction work on the Bright Angel Trail, completed in 1939. The National Park Service’s CCC Walking Tour says that: “[In 1929 the National Park… read more
Date added: April 28, 2022; Modified: May 9, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work at Grand Canyon Village, c 1933-37, including paths, bridges and stairways. As they rebuilt the Rim Trail and its rock wall, they also created the stone stairway down to the Kolb… read more
Date added: April 28, 2022; Modified: May 9, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work at Grand Canyon Village, 1933-37. The National Park Service CCC Walking Tour notes that: “While the CCC crews were refurbishing the rock wall [along Rim Trail, in 1935], they also constructed… read more
Date added: April 29, 2022; Modified: May 9, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work in Grand Canyon National Park from 1933 to 1942. Among its trail development work, the CCC constructed the Clear Creek Trail, which connects North Kaibab Trail to Clear Creek to the… read more
Date added: April 28, 2022; Modified: May 9, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work at the Grand Canyon, 1933-42, including construction of the Transcanyon Telephone Line. A plaque declaring the placement of the Transcanyon Telephone Line on the National Register of Historic Places can be… read more
Date added: January 13, 2013; Modified: May 6, 2022
The Winslow Headstart building, originally the Winslow Clubhouse, was built in 1937 by relief workers employed by the Work Progress Administration (WPA). “The Winslow Clubhouse (now Headstart) is a good example of the Winslow community’s desire for adaptive reuse…. read more
Date added: January 13, 2013; Modified: May 6, 2022
The Williamson Avenue underpass beneath the Santa Fe railway line was built with the aid of the Work Progress Administration (WPA), c 1937. “Construction of the Williamson Avenue underpass was a fine example of cooperating agencies (Works Progress Administration, Atchison… read more
Date added: April 28, 2022; Modified: May 6, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work in Grand Canyon National Park from 1933 to 1942. This included development work on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. CCC Walking Tour: “[CCC] Company 818 worked on the … North Rim… read more
Date added: January 2, 2013; Modified: May 6, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was extremely active in Grand Canyon National Park from 1933 to 1942. There were six CCC camps on the North Rim, South Rim and in the canyon itself and seven companies active over the decade:… read more
Date added: September 7, 2019; Modified: May 6, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was extremely active in Grand Canyon National Park throughout the New Deal. The CCC enrollees worked under the direction of the National Park Service (NPS) and some of the projects were funded by the Public… read more
Date added: April 28, 2022; Modified: May 6, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work at Grand Canyon Village, including reconstruction of an approximately 0.4-mile stretch of wall along the central portion of the Rim Trail, roughly between Bright Angel Lodge and El Tovar Hotel. The… read more
Date added: April 28, 2022; Modified: May 6, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work at Grand Canyon Village, 1933-37, including the rock walls and pillars at the bottom of Navajo Street. The National Park Service CCC Walking Tour adds these details: “The CCC constructed these… read more
Date added: June 14, 2017; Modified: May 6, 2022
In 1937, the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) provided a grant to contractor, G. Clay Gates, to build a metal guardrail on part of the Cameron-Desert View approach road to Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. “G. Clay Gates, Thermopolis,… read more
Date added: April 29, 2022; Modified: May 5, 2022
In 1933-36, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed the Grand Canyon’s River Trail at the bottom of the canyon between the Bright Angel and Kaibab trails. The National Park Service’s CCC Walking Tour, discussing various CCC trail development projects, notes:… read more