Ferry Boat – Avoca LA

City:
Avoca, LA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Maritime: Harbors, Ports & Lighthouses, Mass Transportation

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1939

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

Bartlett, Texas’s Tribune and News in mid-1939 noted an “unusual” PWA-financed project under construction in Avoca, Louisiana: a ferry boat.

Source notes

"PWA Completes 481 Projects In Fifth Region"; The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 49, Ed. 1, Friday, August 25, 1939

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 7, 2014.

Location Info

Avoca, LA St. Mary County

Coordinates: 29.684578, -91.19036

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