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  • Breakheart Reservation - Saugus MA
    The CCC conducted extensive work on Breakheart Reservation to turn it into a public park. From the Friends of Breakheart Reservation website: “undreds of men lived and worked here, paid $30 a month, out of which they kept $5 and sent the rest home to their families. It was the CCC who helped develop this land into a recreational area with bridle paths, trails, and picnic areas.” From Wikipedia: "In 1934 the executors for Johnson and Clough sold the Breakheart Hill Forest to the Metropolitan District Commission for upwards of $40,000. The MDC then turned the land over to the Civilian...
  • Long Pine School - Long Pine NE
    The Long Pine School project was begun and left unfinished by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and the Emergency Relief Agency (ERA). As a result, the school’s roof leaked and the heat did not work. Because the school district’s finances were not robust enough to pay to finish the project itself, the district proposed to finish the project with the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Included in the work was a renovation of all the units within the building including painting all surfaces, sanding and varnishing all floors, doors, desks and furniture, the excavation and cementing of the basement of the...
  • Brimfield State Forest - Brimfield MA
    The CCC assisted in the development of this state forest. From Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs: "This rustic shelter is the only one of its type still remaining. Dingley Dell Dam was another important CCC project at this forest, where there are many CCC camp buildings still remaining."
  • Douglas State Forest - Douglas MA
    From the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs: "CCC features at Douglas include a picnic pavilion, administration building, stone culverts and well maintained water holes."
  • Ortonville Golf Course Clubhouse - Ortonville MN
    The WPA constructed the clubhouse on this golf course circa 1940 to 1943.
  • Prairie Dunes Golf Course - Hutchinson KS
    The WPA constructed the first nine holes of this course in 1937.  
  • Juniata Park - Juniata NE
    The city of Juniata was given a Works Progress Administration (WPA) grant in the amount of $8,014.00 for park improvements.
  • Water System - Juniata NE
    In August 1938, the city of Juniata was awarded a grant of $20,090.00 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for the construction of a water supply system.
  • Kenesaw Auditorium - Kenesaw NE
    The Kenesaw auditorium was originally a Civil Works Administration (CWA) project that eventually morphed into a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project with the termination of the CWA. The WPA portion of the project began in November 1935. The town of Kenesaw donated both money and labor to the project. The WPA installed and constructed two septic tanks and cesspools, finished the interior walls, offices and floors, constructed stage props and the staircase, hung the doors and built a large marquee. The WPA also provided 325 folding chairs for the auditorium. Even so, parts of the building remained unfinished, such as...
  • Reilly Canyon Bridge (abandoned) - Cokedale CO
    The WPA constructed this now-abandoned bridge just west of Trinidad Lake in 1936. From History Colorado: The bridge spans Reilly Creek as part of an abandoned segment of Colo. Hwy. 12.  It includes three separate spans over the creek and a large single-span overpass for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.  Constructed in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration, the bridge with its rock-faced masonry and beaded mortar joints is characteristic of WPA construction in southeastern Colorado. 
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