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Salinas River Project, Cuesta Tunnel, Southeast of U.S. 101, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, CA

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Significance: The Cuesta Tunnel is important as an example of the heroic engineering and construction undertaken by the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps in the early 1940s as part of the mobilization of American forces prior to World War II. The tunnel was constructed in less than 9 months from planning to use, an astonishing rate of construction given the length and diameter of the tunnel. While not unusually large or long in the general context of tunnels in California, the Cuesta Tunnel is an important example of the work of the Quartermaster Corps and private engineering and construction firms under mobilization conditions.

Survey number: HAER CA-153-A

Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

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tunnels san luis obispo calif salinas project salinas river project cuesta tunnel cuesta tunnel san luis obispo san luis obispo san luis obispo county california barry gill historic american engineering record hill leeds us army corps of engineer photo ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress
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Date

1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Leeds, Hill, Barnard, and Jewett, Engineer
U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, Owner
Gill, Barry, transmitter
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San Luis Obispo (Calif.) ,  35.39524, -120.62293
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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