- City:
- Brewer, ME
- Site Type:
- Athletic Courts and Fields, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Doyle Field is a football & softball field next to a PWA built auditorium. An article in the Bangor Daily News November 14, 1933 has an article about City Manager F. D. Farnsworth submitting a request for Federal assistance to help improve the Brewer Athletic field which was then called Legion Park. Original design was for the building of a cinder track, an extensive drainage system and the leveling of the football field. The Feb. 22nd issue said that 61 men were employed, however due to cuts, hours were reduced from 24 to 40 and hourly pay cut from 50 to 40 cents. Brewer City Council voted to rename it as Doyle Field on March 9th, 1948
The field still gets regular use for games and numerous recreation events.
Source notes
Bangor Daily News.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on October 31, 2021.
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