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Yakima Park Highway, Between Mather Memorial Parkway & Yakima Park, Longmire, Pierce County, WA

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Yakima Park Highway, Between Mather Memorial Parkway & Yakima Park, Longmire, Pierce County, WA

description

Summary

Significance: The Yakima Park Highway provided access to the high mountain meadows at Yakima Park on the northeast flank of Mount Rainier and fostered the development of the Sunrise area.
Survey number: HAER WA-126
Building/structure dates: 1927-1931 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97000344

date_range

Date

1969 - 1980

person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Bureau of Public Roads

Mount Rainier Mining Company

Toll, Roger W

Tomlinson, Owen A

Short, C R

Goerig, A C

Lidral Construction Company

John Strom & Company

Emergency Conservation Works

Quin, Richard H, historian

Lowe, Jet, photographer

place

Location

longmire, 46.74983, -121.81260

Google Map of 46.74983109999999, -121.8125968

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

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Copyright info

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