- City:
- Baggs, WY
- Site Type:
- Airports, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked to construct / develop an airstrip at Shoshoni, Wyoming, created by “grubbing sagebrush and clearing field.” A 1950s map shows an airport south of town, at the coordinates below.
Source notes
Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 104).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf (accessed Jul. 19, 2022)
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/WY/WY_Baggs_342022_1957_62500_geo.jpg
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 19, 2022.
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