New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Description
The WPA worked to improve the facilities and infrastructure at Fort Mott, southwest of Pennsville, New Jersey. The site is now a state park.
These WPA projects were sponsored by the Commanding Officer, Fort DuPont, U.S. Army:
- “Improve cemetery road and dock road, including placing curbs, grading and paving roadway”
Official Project Number: 765‐22‐1‐5
Total project cost: $12,198.00 - “Improve buildings, grounds, and facilities”
Official Project Number: 165‐2‐22‐215
Total project cost: $137,676.00 - “Rehabilitate and improve buildings, facilities, and grounds”
Official Project Number: 65‐2‐22‐365
Total project cost: $17,435.00
Source notes
Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009 (page C-119).
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 21, 2018.
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