Fire Alarms – Lenoir NC

City:
Lenoir, NC

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities

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

Started:
1934

Completed:
1935

Description

Numerous municipal improvement projects were undertaken in Lenoir, North Carolina as part of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) projects during the 1930s. One project involved improving the city’s fire alarm system. Exact details are unknown to Living New Deal. The PWA supplied a $18,023 loan and $7,404 grant toward the $25,635 total cost of the project.

(PWA Docket No. NC 6358)

Source notes

National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 107.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 4, 2014.

Location Info


Lenoir, NC

Location notes: General location marker for Lenoir

Coordinates: 35.914, -81.539

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