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Rock Creek Dam, East end of Rock Creek Road, Auburn, Placer County, CA
LocationEast end of Rock Creek Road,
Auburn vicinity, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CA-238
Building/structure dates:
1916 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1966 subsequent work
Significance: The Rock Creek Dam is the only known example of a double-hinged multiple arch dam in California and the only unaltered, unfixed hinge dam in the western United States.
Related Names
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Monroe, R. A.
Eastwood, John
De Vries, David G., Photographer
Baker, Cindy L., Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
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