Farm-to-Market Roads – Lowell MA

City:
Lowell, MA

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

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

Description

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor constructed farm-to-market roads in Lowell, Massachusetts. WPA Bulletin:

WPA in Lowell has improved over 12 miles of farm-to-market roads. Previously many of these roads were impassable during parts of the Spring and Winter seasons and in all seasons travel was difficult.

Source notes

Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Sept. 21, 1936 (pg. 2) https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 15, 2017.

Location Info


Lowell, MA

Location notes: General location marker for city

Coordinates: 42.633, -71.316

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