Project type: Military and Public Safety
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Description
The WPA undertook several projects to improve Staten Island’s Fort Wadsworth 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.
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 13, 2014.
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