Airport Development – Powell WY

Description

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked to construct / develop an airport for Powell, Wyoming, likely Powell Municipal Airport eight miles north of the community. Work here and in other nearby cities “promised to open that region to air traffic.”

Source notes

Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 103).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf (accessed Jul. 19, 2022)

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 19, 2022.

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Location Info


22 Rd 9
Powell, WY 82435

Coordinates: 44.867919, -108.793088

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