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  • Magnetic Park - Plymouth IN
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted multiple projects to develop Magnetic Park in Plymouth, Indiana. The New Deal agency constructed a barn, the Conservation Club House, and a fish hatchery with a capacity of 10,000 fingerlings.
  • Maine State Aquarium (former) - West Boothbay Harbor ME
    "The Maine State Aquarium is located on the water in beautiful West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the aquarium is operated by the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR). This educational facility was built in 1993 along with the state's new fisheries research station." The original hatchery was built by the US government in 1904 for the purposes of raising Cod and Lobsters. In 1938, the P.W.A. awarded a $7,898 grant for improvements and repairs which were completed in 1939.
  • Mohawk Park Hatchery - Tulsa OK
    “WPA projects both directly and indirectly affected fish and wildlife. More than 300 fish hatcheries were built or enlarged nationwide. Creating fish hatcheries was important economically, as well as for sport fisherman….Some of the fish hatcheries established or improved by WPA were located in or near Cherokee, Durant, Lawton, Tishomingo, Krebs, Lake Overholser in Oklahoma City, and Mohawk Park in Tulsa. A fish hatchery is on the city lake at Holdenville in Hughes County, where the WPA built a caretaker cottage and office building. With few details of location given, fish hatcheries have been hard to locate 70 years later. At...
  • National Fish Hatchery - Neosho MO
    The WPA did extensive work on the National Fish Hatchery in Neosho including work on the fish tanks, runs, pools, walls, and drainage ditches.  The primary materials were native stone and concrete.  The work of the WPA at this site is still largely in use.
  • Oyster Planting Project - Biloxi MS
    The oyster project was completed at an expenditure of $67,270.94 for bedding of 2,678 acres of oyster reefs with shells. The sponsor’s contribution was $4,683.18 and the Works Projects Administration funds $62,587.76. The project was approved 1935 to support the cultivation of oysters along the gulf coast. The oyster seedlings were planted on the state reefs of Pass Christian and Pascagoula and in the Bay of Biloxi. At the time, Biloxi was rated the largest oyster canning industry in the world.
  • Pachaug State Forest - Voluntown CT
    Pachaug State Forest is the largest forest in Connecticut. After the land was acquired by the state, "Laborers from New Deal programs such as the ... Civilian Conservation Corps then turned these newly acquired lands into usable open space ..." The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)’s Camp Lonergan, which housed Company #179, was stationed at Pachaug State Forest in Voluntown, Connecticut. The camp was established June 6, 1933 and was discontinued May 28, 1942. A CCC Museum exhibit discusses the camp's accomplishments. "The largest state forest in Connecticut was home to a camp named after Senator Augustine Lonergan. A shingle mill was set up near...
  • Park County Hatchery (former) Development - Cody WY
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked to develop a fish hatchery at the Park County Hatchery near Cody, Wyoming. "The 1935-1936 biennium was a heyday of improvements and construction. ... WPA labor built a new log hatchery building with 36 steel troughs, water system improvements, and landscaping at the Cody hatchery." The location and status of this project is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Prairie Creek Fish Hatchery (former) - Orick CA
    The Prairie Creek Fish Hatchery near Orick was one of the first local hatcheries developed in California to improve sport and commercial fishing. It was constructed in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) on the 62-acre site of a previous hatchery.  The work included the hatchery ponds, five water tanks, a pipeline, superintendent's house, assistant's house, sidewalk, garage shop, and shed. The hatchery operated until 1992 and the site is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • Ridge State Fish Hatchery - Berkeley Springs WV
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Ridge State Fish Hatchery in Berkeley Springs, Morgan County. Pictured are the rearing pools built by WPA crews.
  • Roaring River State Park - Cassville MO
    Roaring River State Park is a large park in the state of Missouri. It was established in 1928. CCC Company 1713 of the CCC (see linked entry for Camp Smokey) did extensive development of the park. CCC work included extensive construction, including a large lodge, cabins for visitors, extensive rock walls, a fish hatchery and enclosure of a large spring, and rock in the river to enhance fishing.  The work is in good shape and is actively being used with the exception of the large lodge. A statue honoring CCC workers was dedicated in Roaring River State Park on May 4,...
  • Sequiota Park - Springfield MO
    WPA work on the park included “cleaning out the lake, building 3,000 feet of rubble masonry retaining walls, one foot bridge, repairs to fish hatchery, four new growing pools, repairs to superintendent’s residence, a new garage, five tourist cabins, construction of drives, walks and field ovens.”   (NARA)
  • Shakamak State Park - Jasonville IN
    Shakamak is an attractive site today, but in 1930 when it opened as a state park, much of the parcel was a wasteland of abandoned strip mines. Shakamak State Park entered a new phase of development during the Great Depression. In the winter of 1933-34, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) employed hundreds of local men to build trails, shelters, and a new lake. The dam was completed by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) which also constructed fish ponds and pens for exotic animals. In 1937, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) finished the projects. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed...
  • Sheridan County Hatchery - Story WY
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a state fishery: the Sheridan County Hatchery in Story, Wyoming.
  • Starve-Hollow State Recreation Area Fish Hatchery - Vallonia IN
    Building was the hatchery office, since replaced by a pole barn to the South (Building now empty). More recent development is to the south (an additional pond, a property manager’s residence), and west of the lower ponds (headquarters and maintenance buildings). Constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1937 and 1939.
  • State Fish Hatchery (former) - Wewahitchka FL
    A story reported in 1936: PANAMA CITY, Fla., March 21. A cow ate the blueprints of a WPA project here, halting work. B. E. Fulghum, project supervisor, put the plans for a building at the State fish hatchery in Wewahitchka on a porch, where the cow found them. New plans were sent to Mr. Fulghum today marked: "For reference, not fodder."
  • State Fish Hatchery (former) Improvements - Cisco TX
    Among the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects identified as completed in a Abilene Daily Reporter article from June 14, 1936 was "installation of a water system at the fish hatchery" in Cisco, Texas. "The hatchery water system was installed at a cost of $4500 and provided work for 30 men for a period of six months." The hatchery is long closed, and its former location is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • State Fish Hatchery (former) Improvements - Huntsville TX
    Between 1939 and 1940, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked at the state fish hatchery northeast of Huntsville, Texas as part of project 65-1-66-175. The WPA reworked the ponds to remove sediment, added an 8-inch water supply line and concrete drainage boxes. They improved the drainage ditches by digging them out, rebuilding some with rock masonry walls and adding culverts where necessary. They also widened some of the levees around the ponds to allow trucks to drive on them. Years later, the lake that fed the ponds of the hatchery drained when its dam failed in a storm, forcing the closure...
  • Stuart Pine Orchard - Pollock LA
    The Stuart Nursery was established in 1934 by the Kisatchie National Forest (KNF) in conjunction with the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Although KNF employees managed the nursery, nearby CCC camps with 200 young men each provided manpower for its operation and field planting (Barnett and Burns 2012). Nursery seedling production was about 25 million annually with most of these seedlings shipped to CCC projects that had reforestation emphases. Wakeley’s research, now located at the nursery, took advantage of the CCC crews to apply a variety of nursery cultural practices and to establish outplanting studies. Over the 9-year...
  • Teton County Hatchery (former) - Jackson WY
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) constructed a fish hatchery in Teton County, Wyoming. Casper Star-Tribune: "The Teton county hatchery was built by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, as a CWA project and will be in full operation this season. It will be of immense value in keeping the waters of the Jackson Hole region supplied, except Jackson lake, whose deep waters are the natural habitat of huge Mackinaws and Natives, the former weighing up to 36 pounds." The location and status of this project are unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery - Tishomingo OK
    “WPA projects both directly and indirectly affected fish and wildlife. More than 300 fish hatcheries were built or enlarged nationwide. Creating fish hatcheries was important economically, as well as for sport fisherman….Some of the fish hatcheries established or improved by WPA were located in or near Cherokee, Durant, Lawton, Tishomingo, Krebs, Lake Overholser in Oklahoma City, and Mohawk Park in Tulsa. A fish hatchery is on the city lake at Holdenville in Hughes County, where the WPA built a caretaker cottage and office building. With few details of location given, fish hatcheries have been hard to locate 70 years later. At...
  • Twin Mountain Fish and Wildlife Hatchery - Carroll NH
    "The Twin Mountain Hatchery dates back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s. After members of the Whitefield Fish and Game Club read about the creation of a hatchery in Chester County, Pennsylvania, they presented the idea (for a similar project in Twin Mountain) to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. As a result, the Twin Mountain Hatchery was initiated as a Works Progress Administration project in 1934. The facility was built on this site because the springs forming Carroll Stream, which flows through the hatchery grounds, provide a continuous source of oxygen-rich water."   (www.twinmountain.com)
  • Uvalde National Fish Hatchery - Uvalde TX
    From the Uvalde NFH website: Establishment of the hatchery originated from a 100 acre land donation by the County of Uvalde in 1935. This donation came shortly after the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1934 which allowed for the acceptance of land donations to be used for the protection, rearing, stocking, and increase of game supply. Construction began on October 1, 1935 under a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program, and was mostly complete in 1937, with commencement of operations beginning in 1938. Today the hatchery is operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and focuses on propagation efforts to promote...
  • Winterville Salmon Hatchery (abandoned) - Winterville ME
    A former salmon hatchery in Aroostook County. One of many projects that have been neglected by the state. The March 11 1938 Bangor Daily News in an article "Aroostook WPA Crews Will Be Increased To 1200 by March 20" notes that "At Winterville, where a fish rearing pool is under construction under the sponsorship of the inland fish and game department the crew will be augmented by 40 men from Eagle Lake, Wallagrass, and Winterville." A WPA job card notes that "Located on Birch River at Winterville - Salmon Fish Hatchery built by the WPA and sponsored by the Maine...
  • WPA Oyster Dredge - Apalachicola FL
    The Works Progress Administration improved and managed the oyster dredge in Apalachicola FL.
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