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The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) conducted numerous projects in Nome, Alaska, including construction of drains. Per The Nome Nugget: The Nome Committee of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration is still carrying on work in Nome. About ten men are… read more
Date added: July 12, 2023
Per the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) supplied labor toward projects at “Teller Mission”—presumably referring the community of Brevig Mission (in which the facility was located), Alaska in 1934. The “CWA”* work at the Teller Mission… read more
Date added: July 12, 2023
Per the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) supplied labor toward “the cutting down of the brush on the public reserves” in Nenana, Alaska in 1934.
Date added: July 12, 2023
Per the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) supplied labor toward “the cutting of the brush and erection of a relief cabin at the cemetery” in Nenana, Alaska in 1934. It is unclear to which cemetery in Nenana… read more
Date added: July 12, 2023
Per the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) supplied labor toward constructing a large trail from Nenana, Alaska in 1934: [As of February 10, 1934,] the unemployed men of Nenana had cut eighteen and a half miles of… read more
Date added: July 12, 2023
Per the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) supplied labor toward the following project in Nenana, Alaska in 1934: “The School House at Nenana has just enjoyed a spring cleaning, the interior of the building has been given… read more
Date added: July 12, 2023
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) supplied labor toward the following project in Golovin, Alaska: “A road is being built to a well half a mile out of Golovin and the well is dug deeper and larger. It is hoped that… read more
Date added: July 12, 2023
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) supplied labor toward the construction of an a “landing field out in front of Nome,” a likely reference to what is now Nome City Field Airport.
Date added: July 12, 2023
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted a project which, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Dec. 1933, “at present is making possible a much needed road around the cemetery.” Living New Deal believes this to be a reference to… read more
Date added: July 12, 2023
Multiple New Deal agencies conducted municipal improvement projects in Nome, Alaska. The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted did the following, per The Nome Nugget: Through … the Civil Work Administration, Nome is daily bring improved and plans are being carried… read more
Date added: July 9, 2023
Construction of the McKinley Park Hotel began on July 12, 1937 and was largely completed in 1938. The New Deal’s Public Works Administration (PWA) contributed $350,000 to the project, and the Alaska Railroad contributed an additional $100,000. “The main building… read more
Date added: June 19, 2022
An inventive Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollee came up with the idea of making a glacial boulder into a drinking fountain by drilling a hole through the boulder and piping in water from a nearby creek. The Water-In-A-Rock fountain is… read more
Date added: January 1, 2022
Public Works Administration project W1012 was approved 9/25/1935 to construct unspecified schools in Juneau. The project provided a loan of $26,351 and grant of $26, 351. The project began construction 4/20/1936 and was completed 9/12/1936 for a total of $58,776…. read more
Date added: January 1, 2022
Public Works Administration grant W1024 approved a grant of $13,167 toward a sanitary sewer for the city of Sitka. The project was approved 6/22/1938 and construction began 8/23/1938. The project was completed 12/2/1938.
Date added: December 14, 2021
Public Works Administration funded project 9299 for Douglas for waterworks and sewer improvements. The project for a $39,000 loan and $ 31,909 grant was approved 7/9/1935. Construction began 10/10/1935 and was completed 8/19/1936.