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Date added: January 9, 2023
Gardner Commons is a low income housing apartment subsidized by the federal governments HUD (Housing and Urban Development Division) that utilizes the former Bucksport High School/Jr High, a PWA project. The Bangor Daily News reported in 2009 that $250,000 was… read more
Date added: November 6, 2022
The Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) supported the construction of welfare housing in Houlton ME between 1933 and 1935. Excerpts from the Annual Town Reports, Houlton Maine: 1933 Partial… read more
Date added: July 2, 2022
An article in the Bangor Daily News reported that “The Department of agriculture announced today that presidential approval of five Maine grade crossing elimination projects involving $396,922 of the state’s $1,425,861 quota for that purpose. The projects were submitted by… read more
Date added: June 29, 2022
A December 1935 article in Bangor Daily News reported that “The Department of Agriculture announced today presidential approval of five Maine grade crossing elimination projects involving $396,922 of the state’s $1,425,861 quota for that purpose. The projects were submitted by… read more
Date added: June 27, 2022
An article in the December 5 1935 Bangor Daily News reported that the Agriculture Dept. had approved 5 grade crossing elimination projects in Maine submitted by the State Highway Commission. “ON MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD Androscoggin and Kennebec counties, between Leeds… read more
Date added: May 30, 2022
The Civil Works Administration funded municipal improvements in Acton ME between 1933 and 1940. Acton is a rural town (1930 population 449) in York County situated next to the New Hampshire border.
Date added: May 18, 2022
When the Civil Works Administration (CWA) was launched in November 1933, the Old Dover Village Cemetery received improvements. According to community notes in the Bangor Daily News, “road grading and widening at the Dover Cemetery, and construction of a new… read more
Date added: May 9, 2022
The historic Norway, Maine post office houses a New Deal wooden relief: “Jacob Howe, First Post Rider,” completed in 1942 by Margaret Vincent. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
Date added: May 9, 2022
The historic post office in Norway, Maine was constructed in 1940 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building bears a 1940 cornerstone and houses an example of New Deal artwork.
Date added: February 6, 2022
In January 1934, an ambitious project of opening up the vast forested area of northern Maine by the construction of a 94 mile road connecting Ashland Maine and Lac Frontier Quebec Canada and called the Brann Scenic Highway was launched…. read more
Date added: January 18, 2022
The Bangor Daily News covered some extensive sewer line construction in the northern town of Fort Kent in the initial CWA jobs program of 1933. December 4: “OVER 100 EMPLOYED ON CWA SEWER PROJECT More than a hundred men are… read more
Date added: January 13, 2022
Federal Emergency Relief Administration crews built parking for Summit Park in Bangor ME. Excerpt from Bangor Daily News: “ERA Workers Building Parking Space Near Old Water Standpipe” “One of the new ERA projects now under way in Bangor is a large… read more
Date added: January 4, 2022
The New Deal was involved in improvements to the school system in the small mill town of Brownville and Brownville Junction. According to the 1933 town report, the town paid its share of $1,064.32 for materials for a Civil Works… read more
Date added: December 14, 2021
As part of the initial Civil Works Administration (CWA) jobs effort in Dover Foxcroft was the construction of 4 sewer lines on Fairview, Morton, Harrison Avenues and Pearl St. $12,618 was spent by the CWA and 90 men were put… read more
Date added: December 13, 2021
The initial Civil Works Administration (CWA) work in Lubec involved street construction. Excerpt from Bangor Daily News: “CWA Work Progressing (From Our Regular Correspondent) LUBEC — Work on the C.W.A. project, the extension of the Can Plant road to join… read more