- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
The WPA undertook several projects to improve Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York during the 1930s and early 1940s. One project called for the WPA to repair and reconstruct buildings; improve the “water and lighting installations” as well as “sewer installation and other utilities” at; and “improve the roads and grounds” at the base.
Source notes
National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration; Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T935; roll 41.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 13, 2014.
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