Airport (demolished) – Farmington ME

Description

Multiple New Deal agencies worked to develop a former municipal airport in Farmington, Maine.

The Farmington airport was initially a FERA/MERA project as part of a state wide airport building program. It was built as a North/South 2000×100′ graded runway, open about June 15, 1934.

W.P.A. project info:
“Construct municipal airport”
Official Project Number: 165‐1‐11‐97
Total project cost: $622,000.00
Sponsor: Town of Farmington

Source notes

Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009 (page C-86).

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 8, 2018.
Additional contributions by Andrew Laverdiere.

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Location Info


618 Fairbanks Rd.
Farmington, ME 04938

Location notes: Approx. location marker

Coordinates: 44.703007, -70.170660

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