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Yerba Buena Island Improvements – San Francisco CA

Yerba Buena Island Road

Yerba Buena Island Road

Yerba Buena Island Road

Photo: Gray Brechin

Yerba Buena Island Road

Yerba Buena Island Road

Project type: Parks and Recreation
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
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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]

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Location Info

Yerba Buena Island
San Francisco, CA

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

Coordinates: 37.809900, -122.366000

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