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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.
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
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.”
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.
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
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
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
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
Date added: June 24, 2017
This maintenance access portal for the Honolulu waterworks system was built with Public Works Administration funds in 1936.
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.”
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
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
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
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 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.