Elliott Highway – Livengood AK

City:
Livengood, AK

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

New Deal Agencies:
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1936

Completed:
1939

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The PWA and FERA built a portion of the Elliott Highway, from Olnes to Livengood: 61-mile sled road converted into a hard surfaced road to allow for automobile traffic.

Source notes

Mead & Hunt, and Cultural Resource Consultants, LLC, Alaska Roads Historic Overview: Applied Historic Context of Alaska’s Roads, Prepared for Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, 2014, p. 65. (https://dnr.alaska.gov/Assets/uploads/DNRPublic/parks/oha/publications/akroadshistoricoverview.pdf)

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee & Evan Kalish on May 25, 2017.

Location Info


Elliott Highway
Livengood, AK

Coordinates: 65.49000, -148.54094

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