The Fort is a government building located at the intersection of Ash and Lincoln Sts. in Taft,

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. The building is a replica of

Sutter's Fort Sutter's Fort was a 19th-century agricultural and trade colony in the Mexican ''Alta California'' province.National Park Service"California National Historic Trail."/ref> The site of the fort was established in 1839 and originally called New Helve ...

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. The property is surrounded by tall

adobe Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for ''mudbrick''. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of e ...

walls with large wooden entrance gates; the interior has a main building surrounded by a courtyard and several smaller offices. The Fort was built by the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

from 1938 to 1940 and was one of the largest WPA buildings constructed in the

San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley ( ; es, Valle de San Joaquín) is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River. It comprises seven c ...

. The buildings at The Fort have been used for government offices at the federal, state, and local levels. The Fort was added to the

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on July 22, 1981.

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* Buildings and structures in Kern County, California Government buildings completed in 1940 Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in California National Register of Historic Places in Kern County, California Works Progress Administration in California {{KernCountyCA-NRHP-stub

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