- City:
- Kauai, HI
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- National Recovery Administration (NRA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1936
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the “United States Public Works project no. NRH-12-B, Kauai Belt Road […] for the sum of $354,355.63.”
The two-lane highway continues to serve as the primary thoroughfare between most inhabited communities on the island.
Source notes
U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report of the Governor of Hawaii to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1934, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934, pp. 38.
https://www.hawaiihighways.com/kauai.htm (accessed Aug. 2022)
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 25, 2017.
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