Middlesboro-Bell County Airport – Middlesboro KY
Date added: May 17, 2015
The federal Works Progresss Administration (WPA) constructed what is now Middlesboro Bell County Airport; the airport was completed in 1936.
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The federal Works Progresss Administration (WPA) constructed what is now Middlesboro Bell County Airport; the airport was completed in 1936.
Date added: November 19, 2013; Modified: November 21, 2013
The Works Progress Administration was a Federal program during the Great Depression designed to provide jobs and make public improvements. A concrete bridge south of Ashbury St between the Middlesboro Intermediate School and 17th Street has the inscription “W.P.A. 1938.”