Black Fork Creek Walls – Tyler TX

City:
Tyler, TX

Site Type:
Pest Control, Infrastructure and Utilities, Forestry and Agriculture, Flood and Erosion Control

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

Started:
1938

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook mosquito control work in Tyler, Texas. Work included lining a creek bed with rubble masonry walls, and paved cement pan to keep down mosquitoes.

Source notes

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141324854@N04/25882178460/in/album-72157666542071326/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141324854@N04/26062605772/in/album-72157666542071326/

Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on October 22, 2018.

Location Info

Black Fork Creek
Tyler, TX Smith County

Coordinates: 32.344035, -95.292933

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