- City:
- Casper, WY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Military and Public Safety, Firehouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs
Description
As part of a Civil Works Administration (CWA) project in Casper, Wyoming: “the fire alarm system, a separate system by which businesses were connected to a central fire alarm center through lines on poles, was extended and rebuilt; in this case, workers cut poles from Casper Mountain and installed them in town.”
Source notes
Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 98).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 27, 2022.
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