Yerba Buena Island Improvements – San Francisco CA

City:
San Francisco, CA

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

WPA work involved "Landscaping and planting various cut slopes and excavated areas which have been opened up during the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge"–Mooser, p. 84.

Source notes

United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.) Report on Progress of the Works Program in San Francisco. January, 1938. Works Progress Administration / William Mooser, Jr., branch manager. [San Francisco? 1938]

Location Info


Yerba Buena Island
San Francisco, CA San Francisco County

Location notes:
Lat/lon is BM at high point on the island.

Coordinates: 37.809900, -122.36600

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