- City:
- Grand Marais, MN
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Description
The federal Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked to construct an airport for Grand Marais, Minnesota in 1933-4. Living New Deal believes this to be Grand Marais Cook County Airport, which is still in use today.
Source notes
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdl.reflections.coo00102;view=1up;seq=1Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 22, 2015.
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Barbara Bezat
Cook County/Grand Marais built a new airport on a hill above the one cited here. The airport and facilities cited here, located on Devil Track Lake, are in use only for seaplanes.