Plum Island Improvements - Southold NY Sayville's Suffolk County News reported during August 1940 that WPA labor was working to improve the previously abandoned Fort Terry on Plum Island:
"WPA workmen are now engaged in repairing the soldiers' barracks, officers' quarters and all roads on the island. The harbor is to be dredged and new wharves constructed. New armament, including anti-aircraft guns and other artillery, has already been installed and a landing field will be constructed."
Riverhead's County Review reported in 1941:
“The Works Projects Administration has assigned a force of men to construct a new water line and grade and resurface roads on Plum Island, site of historic...