UC Botanical Garden Improvements – Berkeley CA

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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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Location Info


200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720

Coordinates: 37.8742544, -122.2377

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