Fox Run Road Improvements – Elizabethtown and Lewis NY

City:
Elizabethtown, Lewis, NY

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted “surfacing, grading, shoulder and ditch construction” work on “the back road from Lewis to Elizabethtown.” Living New Deal believes this to be Fox Run Road.

Source notes

"Two WPA Jobs on Essex County Roads;" The Lake Placid News, Jan. 3, 1941, Page 1. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86033359/1941-01-03/ed-1/seq-1/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 26, 2015.

Location Info


Fox Run Rd.
Elizabethtown, NY

Coordinates: 44.256430, -73.586388

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