- City:
- Boise, ID
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Flood and Erosion Control
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
WPA crews did improvement work on this canal in Boise during 1936. (The canal was originally constructed in the late nineteenth century.) The path alongside is widely used today by cyclists and joggers.
Source notes
National Archives Record Group 69N, Negative #2264-C https://www.shraboise.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Water-in-the-Boise-Valley-NMID.pdf, pp. 18-20.Site originally submitted by Brent McKee & Jake Anderson on October 19, 2016.
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C Morgan
Gabriel Milner
I believe the Ridenbaugh Canal was started back in the 1860s by brothers named Isaacs and continued by William Morris. The 1936 New Deal project may have been to line the canal with concrete, not to initially dig and build the canal.
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In attempting to learn more about the place we’re moving to I conducted some research and discovered the below article which has a lot of information about the canals/irrigations systems in the Boise Valley, including the Ridenbaugh. Hope this article helps you out.
https://www.shraboise.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Water-in-the-Boise-Valley-NMID.pdf
Wow– thank you!