Babcock Boulevard Reconstruction – McCandless / Pine Township PA

City:
McCandless, Pine Township, PA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Description

“Harrison Construction Company was awarded a PWA contract in December 1935 to relocate a 2.3 mile section of Babcock Boulevard in McCandless and Pine Townships to eliminate dangerous curves.”

Source notes

https://www.northlandlocalhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/DPW_roads_info.pdf (accessed Mar. 2018)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 18, 2018.

Location Info


Babcock Boulevard
Pine Township, PA

Coordinates: 40.605437, -79.99644

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