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Glacier Point Road, Between Chinquapin Flat & Glacier Point, Yosemite Village, Mariposa County, CA
Summary
Significance: The Glacier Point Road is a scenic drive providing access to Yosemite's most popular overlook. The road was opened as a toll wagon road in the 1870s, and reconstructed as a modern highway in the 1930s.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N99
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N842
Survey number: HAER CA-157
Building/structure dates: 1874 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Washburn, Albert Henry
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Yosemite Stage & Turnpike Company
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Lippincott, Oliver
Hill, Louis C
Ehrnbeck, A R
Lane, Franklin K
Lewis, Washington B
Bureau of Public Roads
Kittredge, Frank A
Leavitt, E P
Tolen, Harry S
Hull, Daniel R
Nissi, Karl E
Thomson, Charles Goff
Wosky, John B
A Mitchell Company
Sovulewski, Gabriel
Granite Construction Company
Harm Brothers Construction Company
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Quin, transmitter
Grogan, Brian, photographer
Quin, Richard H, historian
Location
Yosemite Village, 37.74273, -119.59870
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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
