- City:
- Bisbee, AZ
- Site Type:
- Flood and Erosion Control, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Bisbee suburb of Warren is located approximately three miles southeast of Bisbee. The community was conceived by the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company in 1905 and designed in 1906 by landscape architect and city planner Warren Henry Manning based on the City Beautiful Movement. Warren would be a sanitary and modern community for families—symmetrically aligned streets, electricity, underground plumbing, churches, schools, and a large park which ran through the middle of the development. In 1959 the town of Warren was annexed into the Bisbee city limits.
The WPA constructed numerous water diversion channels in Warren in beginning in October 1935 through January 1936. WPA stamps and bronze plaques can be found on the concrete walls of these channels found on: Arizona Street, Black Knob View, Hoatson Avenue, and Van Dyke Street.
As of March 2018 the water diversion channels are still in use.
Source notes
Bisbee Daily Review, October 2, 1935 Page Eight
Bisbee Daily Review, October 5, 1935 Page Ten
Arizona Daily Star, January 18, 1936 Page Twelve
Site originally submitted by Amanda Hetro on March 28, 2018.
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