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Three-quarters of a mile of roadwork added safety and beauty to the Coast Highway flanking Neahkahnie Mountain. Talented masons who had once worked for the Works Progress Administration blasted away tons of rock off the mountainside and built support walls and bridges. This engineering feat was the largest state highway rock work project in Oregon up to that time. Weather and time took their toll, and in 2006 the National Scenic Byways Program awarded grants to ODOT to restore two sections of rock wall. The Transportation Enhancement Program later provided funds to restore a third section of the wall in 2014.
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