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Date added: May 29, 2023
In 1934, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a $1 million loan to the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Company (GM&N), from the New Deal’s Public Works Administration (PWA). Out of this money came two streamliners: Rebel trains 352 and 353. … read more
Date added: May 28, 2023
The Works Progress Administration built sidewalks on Otsego Ave. The plaque embedded in the sidewalk has no date.
Date added: May 27, 2023
The Allamakee Courthouse has helped its communities by educating, protecting and preserving the county. The courthouse serves as a spot with many departments that improve the life of those who live in the county. There are many services the courthouse… read more
Date added: May 22, 2023
In October 1936 — two years after the First Lady visited Puerto Rico to assess social and economic conditions — it was announced that the New Deal’s Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA) was taking bids for the construction of the… read more
Date added: May 16, 2023
In 1934, the New Deal’s Public Works Administration (PWA) loaned the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company—popularly known as the “Milwaukee Road”—$8.6 million (about $194 million in 2022 dollars) for infrastructure improvements and new equipment. The latter included… read more
Date added: May 15, 2023
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees were brought in as early as 1933 to improve the hiking trail network in the Gorge along with their other forest management and recreation development. The Wahkeena Falls Trail was among the first to be… read more
Date added: May 14, 2023
The picnic area at Wahkeena Falls benefitted from the attention of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees soon after the program was rolled out in March 1933. Workers from CCC Camp Benson improved a picnic area on the north side of… read more
Date added: May 13, 2023
President Roosevelt signed an executive order on December 21, 1936 to establish the Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge in Lake County, Oregon. This area served the largest, remaining pronghorn antelope herd in the United States. Comprised of Hart Mountain and the… read more
Date added: May 12, 2023
Farnsworth Park is a Los Angeles County park established in Altadena, CA, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, 4 miles north of Pasadena in 1934. Its 15 acres contain covered and open picnic tables, barbecue pits, baseball diamonds,… read more
Date added: May 10, 2023
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did extensive improvements at Armstrong State Park, 1933 to 1941. The most impressive of the CCC works is a large amphitheater, which was under renovation during a visit in December 2022. Many other features… read more
Date added: May 10, 2023
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did extensive improvements at Armstrong State Park, 1933 to 1941. Over the years, CCC Companies 594, 1553. 1920, 1988 and 2916 were stationed at Camp Armstrong, SP-39 (originally known as Camp Armstrong Woods, P-804), which was… read more
Date added: May 9, 2023
In 1940, the Works Progress Administration reconstructed Monaca’s waterworks with locally quarried stone. The project cost $50,000. A marker on the building identifies it as “W.P.A. PROJECT NO. 21284.”
Date added: May 9, 2023
Federal aid funded the 3.5 mile stretch of the Roosevelt Highway – now known as the Pacific Coast Highway and State Route 1 – in front of Santa Monica, California. The funds apparently came from the Public Works Administration (PWA),… read more
Date added: May 9, 2023
Two large murals by Stanton Macdonald-Wright flank the entrance of the Santa Monica City Hall. Each one is two-stories high and wraps around the corner of the lobby. They are elegant works by a major regional artist of the 1930s…. read more
Date added: May 8, 2023
In 1939 the Public Works Administration (PWA) funded a 2300-foot long, L-shaped breakwater in jutting out from the coast at Redondo Beach, California. It was constructed of rocks ferried over on barges from Catalina Island. The Redondo Beach breakwater was… read more