Mount Grant Road – Hawthorne NV

City:
Hawthorne, NV

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Description

CCC Company 1915’s “first job was a daunting task. To build a road up Cottonwood Canyon to Mount Grant. These men worked under every condition, but still built a road up the steep mountain, which at the time, was one of three roads built at such an elevation. Another was Pike’s Peak in Colorado.”

The road, believed to be unnamed, is still extant.

Source notes

https://mcindependentnews.com/2013/08/civilian-conservation-corps-helped-shape-hawthorne/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 14, 2015.

Location Info


Mount Grant
Hawthorne, NV

Coordinates: 38.558278, -118.795927

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