- City:
- Lake Placid, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) reconstructed Lake Placid’s Carolyn Road in 1936. The Lake Placid News reported:
The WPA has allowed a grant of $11,622.40 for improvements on Carolyn road. The town of North Elba project is designed to employ 34 men for four months to widen, grade, and build gutters on the road from Chubb Corners to the Lake Placid – Saranac Lake highway.
Source notes
"Carolyn Road to Be Improved Soon;" The Lake Placid News, May 08, 1936, page 1. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86033359/1936-05-08/ed-1/seq-1/Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 27, 2015.
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