Solomon Creek Wall – Wilkes-Barre PA
Date added: September 16, 2015; Modified: September 16, 2015
“WPA’s legacy is visible today in those and many other ways. Among projects in Wilkes-Barre were … walls along Laurel Run, Mill and Solomon creeks.”
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“WPA’s legacy is visible today in those and many other ways. Among projects in Wilkes-Barre were … walls along Laurel Run, Mill and Solomon creeks.”
Date added: September 16, 2015
“Thanks to WPA labor, many [Wilkes-Barre] city streets were repaved after the iron streetcar tracks were torn up.”
Date added: September 16, 2015
“WPA’s legacy is visible today in those and many other ways. Among projects in Wilkes-Barre were … walls along Laurel Run, Mill and Solomon creeks.”
Date added: September 16, 2015
“WPA’s legacy is visible today in those and many other ways. Among projects in Wilkes-Barre were the retaining walls along North Main Street and Hazle Avenue …” The exact location of the along Hazle Street of the wall is unknown… read more
Date added: September 16, 2015
“WPA’s legacy is visible today in those and many other ways. Among projects in Wilkes-Barre were the retaining walls along North Main Street and Hazle Avenue …” The exact location of the along North Main Street of the wall is… read more
Date added: September 16, 2015; Modified: September 16, 2015
“Thomas Domboski stands near the Toby Creek ponding area just off Union Street in Luzerne, a WPA project from the 1930s that his brothers worked on.”
Date added: September 16, 2015; Modified: September 16, 2015
“A chiseled stone plaque marks the WPA-built wall along the Laurel Run Creek in Parsons section of Wilkes-Barre. … This WPA-built retaining wall helps keep Laurel Run Creek in Wilkes-Barre within its banks.”
Date added: September 16, 2015; Modified: September 16, 2015
“Mose’s injuries … made most physical work impossible. But WPA found a position for him, carrying water to the WPA crews paving the dirt streets of Luzerne.”
Date added: September 16, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided funding toward the paving of previously unpaved roads in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “The second-costliest job was North Bromley Avenue from Lafayette Street to Oram Street, at an estimated $51,196.”
Date added: September 16, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided funding toward the paving of previously unpaved roads in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “The costliest job … was the paving of Birch Street from Pittston Avenue to Crown Avenue, at an estimated cost of $63,469.”
Date added: June 5, 2014; Modified: September 16, 2015
According to a local newspaper article, “water and sanitary sewer lines were installed … for the first time” in Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania, courtesy the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Date added: September 16, 2015
WPA workers filled the Reading Company yard at N 3rd St. and W Berks St. in Philadelphia in late 1935.
Date added: September 16, 2015
“After three years of renovations carried out by the Works Progress Administration, the Atwater Kent Museum was formally dedicated on April 19, 1941.”
Date added: September 16, 2015; Modified: September 16, 2015
“The WPA’s good works in Philadelphia included … construction of the Municipal (later Philadelphia International) Airport …”
Date added: July 9, 2015; Modified: September 16, 2015
The FDR Park Golf Course was constructed as a WPA project in 1936.