- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
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
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on January 11, 2020.
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