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Date added: June 29, 2022; Modified: 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; Modified: 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: March 30, 2018; Modified: May 24, 2022
The Lafayette School in Sanford, Maine was constructed as a New Deal project; the facility was built with Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $36,739 grant for the project, whose total cost was $82,347. PWA Docket No. ME [X]1115
Date added: April 19, 2014; Modified: May 23, 2022
Founded in 1813, Colby College is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. It moved to its current location in the 1930s with significant help from the New Deal: Former Colby student Leonard C. Cabana (class… read more
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: January 2, 2016; Modified: May 18, 2022
The town’s annual report from 1934 reports that: “The Federal Emergency Relief Administration aided greatly in improving our school buildings and grounds… The Duck Cove building was painted inside and outside and the roof shingled.” The Duck Cove school building… read more
Date added: March 1, 2014; Modified: May 18, 2022
A suspension bridge over Androscoggin River on Pedestrian Path in Brunswick and Topsham. Built in 1892 by John A. Roebling Sons Co. to allow mill employees in Bruswick access to housing in Topsham. The bridge was heavily damaged in the… read more
Date added: September 1, 2019; Modified: May 16, 2022
1934 Report of Superintendent of Schools: “At West Farmington, Farmington Falls, Fairbanks School and the Red School, grading was done, the labor for which was paid by the Federal Government, but the material was furnished by the School Department. This… read more
Date added: August 24, 2019; Modified: May 16, 2022
According to town reports, needed repairs were conducted on the former school system of Searsport by CWA, FERA, & WPA. Of the school houses mentioned, only one on Mt. Ephraim St. survives as an apartment building. 1933 “There were three… read more
Date added: October 24, 2017; Modified: May 16, 2022
According to the 1933 and 1934 town reports, a significant amount of work in the city of Belfast was accomplished by the New Deal, particularly improvements, addictions and new construction for the town schools. 1933: Superintendent of Schools Under the… read more
Date added: January 18, 2022; Modified: May 16, 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: February 6, 2022; Modified: May 16, 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: July 14, 2021; Modified: May 16, 2022
2 bridges along the Otter Chain Ponds, the first was a 66 foot steel and concrete stringer bridge and the 2nd was a 210 foot Warren through truss bridge. Both were replaced in 2013. A 1936 State Highway Commission report… read more
Date added: January 4, 2022; Modified: May 16, 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