Good Hope Road SE Improvements – Washington DC

Description

In 1933-34, the Public Works Administration (PWA) paid for pavement repair and other unspecified improvements to a long segment of Good Hope Road SE, from Nichols Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr Avenue) to Naylor Road.  The labor was very likely provided by Civil Works Administration (CWA) or other relief agency workers.
 
This roadwork is probably not discernible today, having been paved over several times. 
 

 

 

 

 

Source notes

Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1934, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935, p. 39.

“District leads states in road work speed,” Washington Post, October 9, 1933, p. 13

Project originally submitted by Brent McKee on January 11, 2020.

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Location Info


Good Hope Road SE
Washington, DC

Coordinates: 38.8655, -76.9786

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