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Item Title
Big Oak Flat Road, Between Big Oak Flat Entrance & Merced River, Yosemite Village, Mariposa County, CA
LocationBetween Big Oak Flat Entrance & Merced River,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CA-147
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N838).
Building/structure dates:
1874 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1935 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1959 subsequent work
Part of building/structure is in Tuolumne, Tuolumne County, CA.
Significance: The second road to reach Yosemite Valley, the Big Oak Flat Road is significant for associations with early Yosemite transportation.
Subjects
RoadsTransportationTransportation Engineering
Related Names
Chinese Camp & Yosemite Turnpike Company
Bureau Of Public Roads
McGee, Tom
Coulter, George W.
Gentry, Col. E. S.
McLean, Dr. John T.
Grogan, Brian, Photographer
Grogan, Brian, Photographer
Quin, Richard H., Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. View from middle adit Wawona Tunnel (CA-105) of junction of Highway 120, the Big Oak Flat Road, and Highway 140 showing retaining wall on Hwy.120 at lower left of image.
2. View as above with long lens. Camera position & view moved slightly west.
3. Retaining wall, .75 mi. west of tunnel #3, view facing NW.
4. View facing SE from same location as number three.
5. View facing SE from same location as number three and four.
6. Retaining wall, west of tunnel #2 (see CA-87-2 for opposite view).
7. Retaining wall, just east of tunnel #1 on Big Oak Flat Road.
8. Retaining wall, .6 mi. west of tunnel #3, view facing SE.
9. View from middle adit Wawona Tunnel of Big Oak Flat Road with retaining walls at lower left and center left with east portal of tunnel #1.
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