Hardscrabble Road Improvements – Three Mile Bay NY

City:
Three Mile Bay, NY

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

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

Started:
1939

Completed:
1939

Description

The Cape Vincent Eagle reported that the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) was to improve several roads to the Lake Ontario shore in the Three Mile Bay area of Jefferson County, New York, during the summer of 1939. Roads included “Hard Scrabble, from the county road westerly to the lake shore, 1.8 miles.”

Source notes

"Lake Roads are to Be Improved;" Cape Vincent Eagle, Apr. 13, 1939, page 1. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn94057709/1939-04-13/ed-1/seq-1/

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

Location Info


Hardscrabble Rd.
Three Mile Bay, NY

Coordinates: 44.026325, -76.292872

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