Hurricane Reconstruction – Walpole NH

Description

Extensive reconstruction was accomplished in Walpole by the W.P.A. after the hurricane of 1938.

1938
Watkins Hill Road
Total, $1,000 00
2,650 ft. of road completed.
4 culverts installed.
2 miles of roadsides brushed and burned.
W. P. A. labor used on this road.

W.P.A. Fund
Total, $499 49
This fund was used for gravelling mud-holes and clearing roadsides and to carry on W. P. A. projects.

$3,500 00
Ash street:
640 ft. tile laid.
3 manholes built with old ones hooked on.
Pine and Spruce streets:
751 ft. tile pipe laid.
7 man holes built with old ones hooked on.
W. P. A. furnished labor used on these streets.

March Hill Road
Total, $1,072 85
2,800 ft. of road built.
6 culverts installed.
2 miles of roadside brushed, cleared and burned.
Some W. P. A. labor was also used on this road.

South Street
$1,000 00
780 ft. of tile laid.
7 new man holes built.
W. P. A. furnished labor used on this street.

1939
W.P.A. Fund Total, $1,572 32

Kingsbury Road
Total, $1,068.29
3.000 ft. of 16 ft. gravel road constructed.
W. P. A. furnished labor on this road.

South Street
Total, $563 10
1,000 ft. of 18 ft. tar treated road constructed.
W. P. A. furnished labor on this street.

March Hill Road
Total $1,115.20
2,300 ft. of 16 ft, gravel road constructed.
W. P. A. furnished labor on this road.

Pine, Spruce, School, & Maple Streets
Total, $2,534.17
1,300 ft. of 18 ft. crushed rock road built.
W. P. A. labor used on these streets.

Total, $804 57
Brewery road, 500 ft. of 16 ft. gravel road built.
Wolfel road, 550 ft. of 16 ft. gravel road built.
Parking space 26 ft. x 87 ft. built.
W. P. A. labor used on these roads.

School Drainage Project
Total, $553.63
1.646 ft. of tile laid.
14 new manholes.
2 old manholes hooked on.
W. P. A. labor used on this project.