Rock steps on path at UC Botanical Garden - Berkeley CA
Project type: Parks and Recreation, Paths and Trails
Started: 1933
Completed: 1934
Quality of Information: Good
Marked:
No
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built paths and rock walls in the University of California Botanical Garden, including a rock bridge over Strawberry Creek.
The CCC enrollees worked out of a camp in Strawberry Canyon in 1933-34.
Source notes
Denis Cuff, "New Deal manual labor jobs shaped Bay Area workers lives and views". Contra Costa Times, April 9, 2009.
Project originally submitted by Paul Licht on April 20, 2009.
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