Why was Highway One routed right through Fort Ross?
score:3
Remember, most of what you see today is restoration of what was there in the past.
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 caused a lot of damage.
The above image from National Park Service
After reconstruction, Old Russian church at Fort Ross, California, October 27, 1929:
From http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/
The stockade walls ,as we see them today, were not yet built. The material for their construction is laying on the ground in front of the church. From FortRoss.Org
After the fort became a state park, the stockade walls were restored a portion at a time. In 1929, the east, south, and part of the west walls were rebuilt.
Later image showing stockade in place by 1957:
The park, as it exists today, didn't exist when the road was constructed. I believe they were both constructed(reconstructed) at about the same time. A 1930 California road map, viewable here, shows a road in place. Considering funding bills passed in 1912 and 1923, planning and locating the roads route had to have taken place well before the stockade was built(rebuilt) beginning in late 1929.
More post
- 📝 Why are the capitals of central Asian countries right against the borders?
- 📝 Where was the Turkish Navy based in July 1914?
- 📝 What was the relative social status of a "grazier" in Victorian England?
- 📝 How do I learn more about untitled artworks on the internet? (like this specific Basquiat painting)
- 📝 Were there any long-term benefits from sending Lenin back to Russia
- 📝 Is Josephus account of destruction of Temple considered reliable?
- 📝 Did Germany produce ammunition with depleted uranium?
- 📝 Who believed the earth was flat?
- 📝 Did average church-goers understand mass in Latin?
- 📝 Was high-altitude naval bombing ever effective in World War II?
- 📝 Why did Huldrych Zwingli and Martin Luther stand for clerical marriage?
- 📝 What was the first recorded reference to the fact that the sun rises and sets at different times across the Earth?
- 📝 Are there archaeological sites of Drusus‘ campaign 9 BC?
- 📝 What is Machiavelli wearing in his painting?
- 📝 Is there an example of Egypt recording defeat?
- 📝 Is this inscription in the Jefferson memorial consistent with Jefferson's views?
- 📝 Is whig history generally considered to be 'bad' history?
- 📝 Why didn't Europeans before Gutenberg print with woodblocks?
- 📝 Examples of ancient maps that gave names based on a cardinal direction
- 📝 What territories were lost or abandoned after Trajan?
- 📝 Who are the three people in the Twilight Struggle card "Red Scare / Purge"?
- 📝 Are there any good sources on the history of the name for Kazakhstan?
- 📝 Why did John Ganson vote contradictorily on the 13th Amendment?
- 📝 Why did the start of the Roman consular year move?
- 📝 How was the initial allocation of the US House of Representatives decided?
- 📝 Was there contact between the Inca, Maya and Aztecs?
- 📝 Was there a contemporary understanding that 1706 was an exceptionally poor year?
- 📝 What changed Japanese attitude to POWs in inter-war period?
- 📝 Have there been any countries that voted themselves out of existence?
- 📝 Where are the agrarian reforms of Basil II codified?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Why was Highway One routed right through Fort Ross?
- 📝 Was Frederick Douglass right that in his day 'religious slaveholders are the worst'? If so why would this be?
- 📝 Why was California admitted as one big state rather than split up?
- 📝 Why was the Tea Horse Route through Tibet less prevalent than the Silk Road route through Tarim Basin, for contact between China and India?
- 📝 Why was most of Europe against communism right from the start?
- 📝 Was Rachel Carson the first person to discover the environmental impact of fertilizers? If not, why was she the first one to talk about it publicly?
- 📝 Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
- 📝 Why was France granted an equal status among victors of World War II?
- 📝 Why did archery not make a comeback when armor was phased out in the 18th century?
- 📝 Why was Poland spared from the Black Death?
- 📝 Why China was able to unify and not Europe?
- 📝 Why was Africa colonized last of the continents in the Age of Discovery?
- 📝 Why was Britain willing to return Hong Kong but not Gibraltar?
- 📝 Why was Spanish Fascist dictatorship left in power after World War II?
- 📝 Why was the Scout movement so successful?
- 📝 Why was the Council of Nicea held in Nicea rather than Rome or Constantinople?
- 📝 Why was it "acceptable" for Prince Charles to marry a divorced woman, when Edward VIII had to abdicate for marrying divorcee Wallis Simpson?
- 📝 Why was World War I ended on Nov 11 11:00, rather than immediately upon signing the armistice?
- 📝 Was there ever a treaty between 2 entities with significantly different translations to the detriment of one party?
- 📝 In the Soviet Union, why was the Cheka renamed so many times?
- 📝 Why was "leaping into the river" a valid trial outcome to prove one's innocence?
- 📝 Why was the Japanese Army's fatalities inflicted:suffered ratio so low in the Pacific theatre?
- 📝 Why was capturing the south of Okinawa necessary?
- 📝 Why were the drawings of Colossus burnt after WW2 and why was its very existence "of course" kept secret?
- 📝 Why was there a surge in the US incarceration rate during the 1990s?
- 📝 Why was the Treaty of Versailles so harsh?
- 📝 Why was no Nobel Prize for Literature awarded in 1935?
- 📝 Why did the USA invade Okinawa instead of one of the many other islands in southern Japan
- 📝 If the Ch’in dynasty was so short-lived, why was China named for it?
- 📝 Why was Switzerland not attacked during the two World Wars?
