Airport – Pinedale WY

City:
Pinedale, WY

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Description

“Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs helped the community… Additional aid came when the Works Progress Administration provided funds that … developed the airport …”

The airport in question is unclear to Living New Deal.  A good candidate, the public Ralph Wenz Airport, was established during the 1940s according to the town’s website.

Source notes

"Pinedale," by Ann Chambers Noble (page 8) https://books.google.com/books?id=Jabj4RsUqc4C&pg=PA8

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 18, 2016.

Location Info


Pinedale, WY

Location notes: Marker shows Ralph Wenz Field

Coordinates: 42.798983, -109.807596

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