- City:
- Billings, Laurel, MT
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
“Practically every two-lane highway in Eastern Montana was built with the help of WPA funds, said Jon Axline, a historian with Montana’s Department of Transportation. …
Other examples include Highway 87, from Billings to Roundup, and the old Frontage Road, south of the interstate between Billings and Laurel.”
Source notes
"Traces of New Deal remain in Montana," Billings Gazette, May 31, 2008
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 8, 2018.
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