Project type: Parks and Recreation, Swimming Pools
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
“WPA’s legacy is visible today in those and many other ways” in Wilkes-Barre. “Thanks to WPA labor, … [t]he Miner Park and Hollenback swimming pools were built.”
Living New Deal believes the pool to be no longer extant.
Source notes
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader: "Area still benefits from jobs program created during Depression," 2011. http://archive.timesleader.com/2011_7/2011_09_04_Area_still_benefits_from_jobs_program_created_during_Depression_-news.html
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 16, 2015.
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