- City:
- Caribou, ME
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Caribou Municipal Airport saw development work conducted by multiple New Deal agencies.
It was developed as part of a statewide airport building effort by FERA. It was originally built with a N – S 3000×250 graded sod runway, & a E – W 2,000×300 graded sod runway.
W.P.A. project info:
- “Construct municipal airport”
Official Project Number: 165‐1‐11‐60
Total project cost: $181,424.00
Sponsor: Town of Caribou - “Construct Caribou Municipal Airport”
Official Project Number: 165‐X‐XX‐100
Total project cost: $276,174.00
Sponsor: Town of Caribou - “Construct municipal airport”
Official Project Number: 165‐1‐11‐100
Total project cost: $1,022,200.00
Sponsor: War Department
Source notes
Reviewing the ERA in Maine by Hildreth Hawes
Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009 (page C-85).
Portland Sunday Telegram and Portland Sunday Press Herald, July 28, 1935.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on April 12, 2017.
Additional contributions by Evan Kalish.
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