Cooper Library Improvements – Wilmington NY

City:
Wilmington, NY

Site Type:
Education and Health, Libraries

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a stone wall at, and made other improvements to, what is now known formally as the Wilmington E. M. Cooper Memorial Public Library.

Google Street View imagery shows the wall present as of 2014.

Source notes

The Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post., Oct. 6, 1938, page 2. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn87070340/1938-10-06/ed-1/seq-2/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 27, 2015.

Location Info

5751 Route 86
Wilmington, NY 12997

Coordinates: 44.388956, -73.816624

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