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Generals Highway Roads and Bridges
Sequoia National Park, California
THE CCC
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a program of the Emergency Conservation Works Act, was one of the New Deal programs initiated under President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The CCC provided work for unemployed young men through federal agencies, such as the Department of the Interior. The CCC played an important role in many state and national parks. In Sequoia National Park, the corps established ten camps between 1933 and 1942, contributing extensively to the development of Generals Highway. CCC enrollees improved conditions along the highway through the removal of fallen trees and boulders, eradication of construction scars, rounding and revegetation of slopes, and widening the road to eliminate blind curves. The CCC constructed much of the stonework located on the Generals Highway including gutters, culverts, guardwalls and retaining walls. The CCC also carved rustic signs for the highway including the Ash Mountain entrance sign (1936) and the northern park boundary sign (1937).
Tunnel Rock, excavated by the CCC in 1934, has been a popular roadside feature of the highway. |
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