- City:
- Sonora, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
According to Tuolumne County Historian Carlo De Ferrari, the Works Progress Administration worked extensively along Wards Ferry Road, doing widening and other improvement work.
Excerpts from WPA job cards:
WPA Project No. 65-3-100, Date 8/27/35, $12,124, “Street Repairs”.
WPA Project No. 65-3-102 Date 8/27/35, $11,293, “New road construction.”
WPA Project No. 65-3-103, Date 8/27/35, $11,232, “Road Improvement”
WPA Project No. 65-3-3836, Date 12/14/35, $1,947, “Construct retaining wall.”
WPA Project No. 65-3-4400, Date 1/17/36, $8,977, “Construction of a concrete bridge and a new road to approach bridge.”
Source notes
Lacey Peterson. The Union Democrat. January 30, 2009. https://www.uniondemocrat.com/2009013095778/News/Local-News/Federal-money-at-work
WPA Job Cards, Fresno Public Library San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center
Site originally submitted by The Living New Deal on June 10, 2010.
Additional contributions by Andrew Laverdiere, July 2018.
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