- City:
- Newburyport, MA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Civic Facilities, Monuments and Memorials, Landscaping and Tree Planting
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) co0nstructed a stately stone observation tower in Newburyport, Mass. WPA Bulletin:
In the center of Atkinson Park, Newburyport, WPA workmen have constructed a fifty-foot, field-stone, observation tower. Surrounding grounds have been landscaped with grass, trees and shrubs.
Source notes
Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Sept. 28, 1936 (pg. 2)
https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 15, 2017.
Additional contributions by Ken Liss - Brookline Historical Society.
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