- City:
- Atlantic City, NJ
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
Description
The condition of Atlantic City’s primary thoroughfare Atlantic Avenue was so poor that it was occasionally referred to as “no man’s land” prior to the federal Works Progress Administration’s resurfacing of the road in 1936.
Source notes
"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; June 1936 issue, page 11. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 7, 2015.
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