Roosevelt Highway – Big Sur CA

City:
Big Sur, CA

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

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Started:
1934

Completed:
1934

Description

One-and-a-half miles of the Roosevelt Highway (today Cabrillo Highway) between Molera’s Ranch and Big Sur were constructed with a 24-foot-wide road financed by the National Industrial Recovery Act (N.I.R.A.). Start date: Jan. 1934; completion date: Jun. 1934.

Source notes

January 1934 issue of California Highway and Public Works magazine.

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on July 20, 2014.

Location Info


Big Sur, CA 93920

Coordinates: 36.275486, -121.82207

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