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Hide Search OptionsDate added: April 15, 2014; Modified: April 22, 2014
A 1936 paper reported: “The WPA installed toilets in the high school garage, which is used as a comfort station for tennis players during the summer. At the present time WPA workers are working on the $25,000 plan to renovate… read more
Date added: April 15, 2014
The Newark-Pequannock Watershed is a 35,000 acre natural resource owned by the City of Newark New Jersey. “TRENTON—That it is possible for the boys of the New Jersey Civilian Conservation Corps camps to gain a varied experience and training is… read more
Date added: April 15, 2014
“One of the big projects accomplished during the CWA program in Morris County and now nearly completed is the creation of a storage reservoir on top of Green Pond Mountain and within the Picatinny arsenal limits. This will cut out… read more
Date added: April 15, 2014
“Forty [CWA men] are building a retaining wall at the foot of Morris avenue here near the Rockaway River. The plot will be filled with refuse and dirt after the wall is built. Eventually it will become a park.” The… read more
Date added: April 15, 2014
“BUTLER – An endeavor to employ local county men on PWA work now in progress around Butler finally met with success….Thus the aim of the Borough to engage its own citizenry for its own projects, reducing town unemployment slack to… read more
Date added: March 9, 2014
New Jersey’s Skylands Visitor website writes: “During the 1920s the Army Corps of Engineers proposed the first of several flood control plans. The Works Projects Administration (WPA) followed in the 1930’s constructing drainage ditches and straightening and deepening the channel… read more
Date added: March 8, 2014
The website for Hudson County, New Jersey writes that Mercer Park in Bayonne, N.J. “was named after General Hugh Mercer, a famous American Revolution figure known for his bravery at the Battle of Princeton. The Park’s development was made possible… read more
Date added: March 8, 2014
According to the Washington Park Association (WPA), the Works Progress Administration (same abbreviation) helped Washington Park “[take] its current shape.” The Association notes, “(The Washington Park Association chose their name wisely when they picked WPA for our abbreviation.)” The details… read more
Date added: January 20, 2014
From the James F. Justin CCC Museum website: “Belleplain [State Forest] was established in 1928 by the state [of New Jersey] … Beginning in 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) transformed the Meisle family’s cranberry bog into a 26.2 acre… read more
Date added: January 14, 2014; Modified: January 14, 2014
The post office contains a 1942 Section of Fine Arts mural by Avery Johnson, “Purchase of Territory of North Bergen from the Indians.”
Date added: January 14, 2014
The post office houses the mural “View From the Palisades – West New York 1939” painted by William Dean Fausett in 1939 under the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
Date added: December 16, 2013; Modified: January 1, 2014
The post office originally contained two Section of Fine Arts murals painted by Roy Hilton in 1939. One mural, “The New Stagecoach,” still hangs in the post office. The mural “Building of Westfield” was unfortunately destroyed during lobby renovations in… read more
Date added: December 17, 2011; Modified: January 1, 2014
“This high school in Union County accommodates the students of 7 communities which formerly had no high-school facilities within their boundaries. Its site has an area of 16 1/2 acres and has been graded and landscaped and provided with playing… read more
Date added: December 7, 2013; Modified: December 23, 2013
The New York Times wrote the following in 2003 in a retrospective article of New Jersey-based artist Michael Lenson: “[Mr. Lenson] moved to Newark and applied at the W.P.A. office on Halsey Street … Soon, Mr. Lenson was designing and… read more
Date added: December 7, 2013
The New York Times wrote the following in 2003 in a retrospective article of New Jersey-based artist Michael Lenson: “[Mr. Lenson] moved to Newark and applied at the W.P.A. office on Halsey Street … Soon, Mr. Lenson was designing and… read more