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Item Title
Generals Highway, Three Rivers, Tulare County, CA
Location
Three%2BRivers%2Bvicinity, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CA-140
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N208).
Building/structure dates:
1921 initial construction
Pumpkin Hollow Bridge was actually constructed in 1922 not 1924 as indicated on drawing 9.
Significance: Construction of the Generals Highway to the Giant Forest challenged engineering practices of the time. The highway and related infrastructure was designed to blend with the surrounding landscape, creating a distinctively rustic and unique park road.
Subjects
Indians Of North AmericaRoadsTransportation
Related Names
Goodwin, George
Small, James B.
Austin, W. M.
Erhart, Eric E.
Sager, Merel
Fowler, Harold G.
Perkins, B. Devon, Delineator
Stachanczyk, Renata, Delineator
Slattery, Christine, Historian
Grogan, Brian C., Photographer
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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