- City:
- Beverly Hills, CA
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1940
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1940, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a lengthy ~0.3-mile wall along part of the road which surrounds the Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir in Franklin Canyon Park, Beverly Hills, CA. When driving north along the east side of the reservoir, the wall is to your left. Plaques at the north and south ends of the wall read “Built by United States Work Projects Administration 1940.”
Source notes
WPA plaques
Google Street View
Site originally submitted by Douglass Halvorsen on February 15, 2018.
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It is not a bridge. There is no creek. This is a wall surrounding a reservoir, with identical WPA plaques on the wall at each end of the reservoir.
Thank you; we’ve updated the project page and description accordingly.