Trout Creek Bridge – Santa Marguerita CA

City:
Santa Marguerita, CA

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

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1941

Completed:
1941

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Trout Creek bridge on state highway 58, a couple miles east of Santa Marguerita, in 1941.  This was part of a program of WPA road work all over San Luis Obispo County roads during the 1930s, as indicated by WPA “project cards” in the National Archives.

WPA project cards are only indicative, however; they show which projects were planned, funded by the WPA and approved by President Franklin Roosevelt; they do not guarantee that the work was actually done, since the WPA usually proposed more projects than it could carry out.  In this case, the proof of the work is the date stamp on the Trout Creek bridge, which is typical of WPA bridges, and corroborated by the presence of WPA-stamped drainage works farther up Highway 58.

Source notes

Site originally submitted by Richard A Walker on April 9, 2021.
Additional contributions by Joan Greer.

Location Info


Highway 58
Santa Marguerita, CA 93453
San Luis Obispo County

Coordinates: 35.38874, -120.5817

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