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Connecticut Hill State Game Management Area Improvements – Newfield NY

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Parks and Recreation, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
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Description

The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve the Connecticut Hill State Game Management Area (then the Connecticut Hill State Game Refuge) in Newfield, New York during the 1930s.

One project was described by the WPA in its project rolls: “[C]learing, cutting boundary fire lanes, planting, constructing, and reconstructing roads” and performing related work.

Source notes

National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration;
Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T936; roll 9.

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 16, 2014.

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Location Info

Newfield, NY

Coordinates: 42.346999, -76.685865

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