Dean Park – Warren MA

City:
Warren, MA

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Athletic Courts and Fields

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

Completed:
1937

Description

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor constructed Dean Park in West Warren. WPA Bulletin:

What was once a rough field in West Warren, on the road to Ware, is now a seven-acre recreational site built by the WPA. This is the first athletic field in town history. According to sponsors and engineers, construction of the field, now called Dean Park, was replete with trouble and they point to the fact that 60 percent of the excavation was done by dynamite blasts. Youngsters of the town (who are not a bit interested in engineering difficulties) are proud of the new baseball and football fields which have replaced wild scrub land, boulders, rock ledges and a swampy stream.

Source notes

Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Oct. 15, 1937 (pg. 3) https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 19, 2017.

Location Info


Dean Park
Warren, MA

Coordinates: 42.215627, -72.2389698

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