- City:
- McKeesport, PA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
A street improvement project was undertaken in downtown Tarentum as part of a New Deal project, sponsored by the Public Works Administration (PWA). According to the Pittsburgh Press the project involved “widening Corbet Street between Third and Fourth Avenues.”
PWA Docket No. PA [W]1252
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 33.
The Pittsburgh Press: July 29, 1936 (pg. 2)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/147053621/ (accessed Mar. 2018)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 17, 2018.
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