- City:
- Denver, CO
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1937
Description
In 1937 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) “completely paved and modernized” Denver’s Colfax Avenue, “and built a new western route which took it over the hill and across ranch land to the entrance of Mt. Vernon Canyon, its present route. Around this time Colfax was designated U.S. Highway 40.”
Source notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_Avenue
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 3, 2018.
Contribute to this Site
We welcome contributions of additional information on any New Deal site.
Submit More Information or Photographs for this New Deal Site
Join the Conversation