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    Kauai Belt Road

    Kauai Belt Road – Kauai HI

    Date added: June 25, 2017

    The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the “United States Public Works project no. NRH-12-B, Kauai Belt Road […] for the sum of $354,355.63.” The two-lane highway continues to serve as the primary thoroughfare between most inhabited communities on the island.

    Honoapiilani Highway - Lahaina HI

    Honoapiilani Highway – Lahaina HI

    Date added: June 25, 2017

    The Public Works Administration (PWA) awarded $98,627.49 for the Lahaina-Wailuku Belt Road, now known as the Honoapiilani Highway and State 30, running along the south coast of Maui. This was during the early stage of the New Deal when the… read more

    Paia Spur – Maui HI

    Date added: June 25, 2017

    The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the “United States Public Works project no. NRH-17-A, Paia Spur, for the sum of $177,717.69.”

    Maalaea Airport Spur – Maui HI

    Date added: June 25, 2017

    The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the “United States Public Works project no. NRH-13-B, Maalaea Airport Spur, for the sum of $25,574.76.” The airport was closed permanently in 1939.

    Kawaihae Road

    Kawaihae Road – Hawaii HI

    Date added: June 25, 2017

    The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the “Federal-aid project no. F. A. P. 11-B and United States Public Works project no. NRH-ll-C, Kawaihae Road, for the sum of $251,579” for the construction and improvement of the Kawaihae Road on the island… read more

    Hawaii Belt Road – Hawaii HI

    Date added: June 25, 2017

    The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the Federal-aid project no. F. A. P. 14-A for the construction and improvement of the Hawaii Belt Road, (Kapehu and Kaaluu Bridges) for the sum of $75,880.61. The road runs along the coast of,… read more

    Kunia Road

    Kunia Road Construction and Improvements – Kunia HI

    Date added: June 24, 2017

    “[…] United States Public Works project no. NRH-16-A, known as the ‘Kunia Road’, for the sum of $388,585.26. The Kunia Road runs from Schofield Barracks to the Ewa-Waianae Road, a distance of 7.81 miles, and is a road long wanted… read more

    Kamehameha Highway Construction and Improvements – Oahu HI

    Date added: June 24, 2017

    “United States Public Works project no. NRH-9-A, a section of Kamehameha Highway known as the ‘Puuloa-Aiea Cut-off’ for the sum of $387,099.84; United States Public Works project no. NRH-7-C (reopened) and no. NRH-7-D (reopened), a section of Kamehameha Highway, for… read more

    Haleakala Road – Maui HI

    Date added: June 23, 2017

    “The construction of the Haleakala Road on the island of Maui, known as Federal-aid project no. 5-B, was completed at a cost of $498,508.72.”

    Kaunakakai Harbor – Molokai HI

    Date added: June 22, 2017

    The Army Corps of Engineers, the Public Works Administration, and the National Industrial Recovery Administration funded and conducted improvement operations in the Kaunakakai Harbor on Molokai, between 1933 and 1934. The work consisted of the “dredging of a harbor basin about 1,500… read more

    Aerial View of Port Allen in 1932 with the Hanapepe Air Field in the Foreground

    Port Allen Harbor – Eleele HI

    Date added: June 22, 2017

    The Army Corps of Engineers, the Public Works Administration, and the National Industrial Recovery Administration funded and conducted improvement operations in the Port Allen Harbor between 1934 and 1935. The work consisted of creating a 1,200 foot “rubble-mound breakwater,” and dredging the “harbor… read more

    Honolulu Harbor Improvements – Honolulu HI

    Date added: June 22, 2017

    The Army Corps of Engineers, the Public Works Administration, and the National Industrial Recovery Administration funded and conducted improvement operations in the Honolulu Harbor between 1934 and 1935. The work consisted of the enlargement of the “entrance channel to 40 feet… read more

    Kuakini Street Bridge (Nu’uanu Stream) – Honolulu HI

    Date added: June 12, 2017

    Living New Deal believes this bridge, which carries North Kuakini Street over the Nu’uanu Stream, was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds—in conjunction to a nearby bridge over Waiolani Stream—in 1934.

    Date Street Bridge – Honolulu HI

    Date added: June 12, 2017

    The bridge carrying Date Street across the Manoa-Palolo Canal (itself a W.P.A. project) was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) in 1937. Two imprinted stamps identify the bridge as W.P.A.