- 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/worksprogressbul3637unitSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 19, 2017.
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