- City:
- Mendocino, CA
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) played an important role in the construction of highway 1 along the California coast during the 1930s – most famously along the Big Sur coastline.
WPA crews also worked on highway 1 in Mendocino County, where they built three new bridges — Jack Peters Creek bridge, Russian Gulch bridge and Jug Handle Creek bridge.
Jack Peters Creek bridge, completed in 1939, is a concrete stringer bridge, 223 feet long with a central span of 90 feet.
Like the others, Jack Peters Creek bridge has a date stamp but no other marking as to its origins with the WPA.
According to the Ukiah Dispatch Democrat, the cost of the bridge was $25,000.
Source notes
Frank Harzell, "Community discussion continues with renowned UC bridges expert, Caltrans," Mendocino Beacon, September 4, 2014.
Ukiah Dispatch Democrat, August 18, 1939, p. 2, (https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/839510/), accessed August 23, 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_1
https://bridgehunter.com/ca/mendocino/jack-peters-creek/
Site originally submitted by John Stehlin on August 24, 2018.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
Site Details
| Federal Cost | Total Cost |
|---|---|
| $25,000.00 | $25,000.00 |
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