Chickatawbut Road Improvements – Milton MA

City:
Milton, MA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Parks and Recreation, Landscaping and Tree Planting, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

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

Started:
1938

Description

Description of W.P.A. projects:

“Chickatawbut Road, Braintree; work will be started in the early spring of 1939 on the general improvement and beautification of the Chickatawbut Road entrance to Blue Hills Reservation. Work will include tree removal, clearing, excavation, rip-rapping of brooks, rubble wall construction, fence relocation, road drainage, resurfacing of surface road, grading, loaming and seeding and all incidental work.”

“Chickatawbut Road at Granite Street, Braintree; improvement and beautification of this entrance to the Blue Hills Reservation.”

Source notes

"Annual report of the Metropolitan District Commission," by Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission (1938 volume; pg. 19)

"Annual report of the Metropolitan District Commission," by Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission (1939 volume; pg. 17)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 12, 2018.

Location Info


Chickatawbut Road
Milton, MA

Coordinates: 42.221428, -71.074815

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