Mapping the Roads of White Bluffs
New highway plans aim to connect key agricultural corners and expand access to soldier settlement tracts.
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County Engineer Ammon with a surveying crew has been busy this week surveying and cross-sectioning the road from Grant’s Corner to the Leggett Mercantile company store and down Federal Avenue to the corner near the old water tank. The road that runs east and west past the front of the high school is also being surveyed. Considerable work is to be done on both of these roads this year. The square turn at Grant’s Corner is to be eliminated and the road from that point to the old water tank is to be made a state highway. Two new roads in this district are also to be built this year, one north and south through the soldier settlement tracts north of the S. V. Fanning orchard, and the other to accommodate the soldier settlers in section sixteen between Hanford and White Bluffs.
“The square turn at Grant’s Corner is to be eliminated and the road from that point to the old water tank is to be made a state highway.”
The infrastructure mentioned here—roads leading to water tanks and agricultural orchards—defined the layout of White Bluffs before the town was largely erased by the Manhattan Project. Identifying these street patterns provides a tangible link to the landscape that predates the restricted zone.
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