- City:
- Santa Cruz, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
WPA workers in Santa Cruz engaged in a variety of roadwork in Santa Cruz County:
"Construct fire trail and motorway on Coast Road (1935)
Improving various roads not in the Federal Aid System (1935)
Rocking roads in vicinity of Soquel (1935)
Surfacing with crushed rock and fuel oil Front Gulch and Larkin Valley Road near Aptos (1935)
Brushing, clearing, widening, drainage structures, and oiling Zayante Road, beginning at Lompico Creek (1935)
Improving 7.45 miles of Soquel-San Jose Road (1935)
Improve Empire Grade Road (1936)
Improve Lockhart Gulch Road (1936)
Improve Escalona Drive in the city of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, including clearing, scrubbing widening, grading, oiling, installing culverts (1937)
Improve Center and Church Streets… (1938)
Improve streets in the vicinity of and through Natural Bridge Park…(1938)
Construct public road on San Andreas Road to Camp McQuaide… (1942)"
Source notes
https://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/238/At this Location:
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