De Beltjen Rd. Construction and Improvements – Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas VI

City:
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VIRGIN-ISLANDS

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

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

Started:
1938

Completed:
1939

Description

The WPA carried out construction and improvements on De Beltjen Rd. in Charlotte Amalie. Road construction and improvements carried out by the WPA in the Virgin Islands typically included “clearing the old roadway […] widening existing curves, blasting rock from the road surface and drains, relocating where necessary, installing culverts, preparing the subgrade and placing the bituminous macadam surface.”

Source notes

National Archives, RG 55, Records of the Government of the Virgin Islands, Correspondence and related records, WPA Programs in the V.I., 1938-44, Box 2.

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on August 30, 2017.

Location Info


De Beltjen Rd.
St. Thomas, VI

Coordinates: 18.3388468, -64.92561180000001

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