- City:
- Hornitos, CA
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“Improve and rehabilitate the Hornitos – Bear Valley Road near Hornitos Mariposa County, by widening, realigning, surfacing, oiling and doing other incidental work. Not a part of the Federal Aid Highway System. In addition to projects specifically approved. County owned property.”
Sponsor: County of Mariposa
WPA Proj. No. 165-3-1131, February 9, 1937, $7,563, Total Federal and Sponsor funds $14,176, Average Employed 39
There is also another unspecified road project conducted by the WPA in Hornitos “Road improvement” WPA Proj. No. 65-3-3842, December 30, 1935, $13,138
Source notes
WPA job card. Fresno Public Library San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on March 2, 2018.
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