- City:
- Charleston, WV
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Works Progress Administration built a sewer system running from East Avenue, Charleston to Montrose Drive, South Charleston. “Construction of brick sewer to connect storm and sanitary sewer with sewer from East avenue to Kanawha river, also to connect under Montrose drive. South Charleston.” East Avenue is now called MacCorkle Avenue. The general location of the project is in the vicinity of the river.
Source notes
48 WPA Projects Completed in West Va., Charleston Gazette, April 26, 1936, p. 11.
Sanborn Maps, Charleston, 1933, Sheet 236.
Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on February 26, 2018.
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