- City:
- Cordova, AK
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1941
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration contributed $2,306 toward the construction of the airfied in Cordova, Alaska. Formerly operating as the Cordova Army Airfield, the airfield was subsequently closed. The airfield was redeveloped and today serves as the state-owned, public-use Cordova Municipal Airport.
Source notes
Annual Report of the Governor of Alaska to the Secretary of the Interior, for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1940, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940, p. 60.Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 8, 2017.
Site Details
| Federal Cost |
|---|
| $2,306.00 |
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