- City:
- Berkeley, CA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Paths and Trails
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
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.
Site originally submitted by Paul Licht on April 20, 2009.
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