Fowler Switch Canal Improvements – Fresno County – CA

State:
CA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1938

Completed:
1939

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Between 1938 and 1939, the WPA lined seven miles of the Fowler Canals with concrete.

Source notes

Fresno Bee, August 1940 in "Scrapbooks of clippings related to WPA projects in Fresno, Kern, King, Madera, and Tulare Counties," gift of Mrs. David T. Holmes, Vacaville, 1962. (Scrapbook can be found in the California State Library in Sacramento).

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on August 26, 2011.

Location Info


Fowler Switch Canal
CA Fresno County

Location notes:

Coordinates: 36.692728, -119.60013

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