- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1938
- 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 Jughandle Creek bridge.
Jughandle Creek bridge, completed in 1938, is 388 feet long, with a central span of 210 feet. It is a concrete open-spandrel arch design. It was renovated in 1966.
Like the others, Russian Gulch bridge has a date stamp but no other marking as to its origins with the WPA.
Source notes
Frank Harzell, "Community discussion continues with renowned UC bridges expert, Caltrans," Mendocino Beacon, September 4, 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_1
https://bridgehunter.com/ca/mendocino/100154/
Site originally submitted by Richard A Walker on June 6, 2019.
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