Incinerator Repairs – Huntington NY

City:
Huntington, NY

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal

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

Description

A 1936 news story references WPA repairs to a “fire-gutted Town of Huntington incinerator.”

The location and status of this site is unknown to Living New Deal.

Source notes

"$1,220,649 WPA Funds Have Been Spent Here"; Suffolk County News [Sayville, NY], Sept. 4, 1936 (page 12).

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 6, 2014.

Location Info

Huntington, NY Suffolk County

Location notes: General marker for city of Huntington.

Coordinates: 40.868, -73.426

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One comment on “Incinerator Repairs – Huntington NY”

  1. Cheryl L. Blum December 18, 2016

    In the August 7, 1936 edition of The Long Islander Newspaper (Huntington, New York) there is a report on the fire and the subsequent clean-up and repair project: https://apa3.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=Suffolk&BaseHref=LIS/1936/08/07&PageLabelPrint=1&EntityId=Ar00105&ViewMode=GIF

    In the October 23, 1936 edition there is a summary of the WPA projects in the County: https://apa3.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=Suffolk&BaseHref=LIS/1936/10/23&PageLabelPrint=2&EntityId=Ar00216&ViewMode=GIF

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  1. Cheryl L. Blum December 18, 2016

    In the August 7, 1936 edition of The Long Islander Newspaper (Huntington, New York) there is a report on the fire and the subsequent clean-up and repair project: https://apa3.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=Suffolk&BaseHref=LIS/1936/08/07&PageLabelPrint=1&EntityId=Ar00105&ViewMode=GIF

    In the October 23, 1936 edition there is a summary of the WPA projects in the County: https://apa3.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=Suffolk&BaseHref=LIS/1936/10/23&PageLabelPrint=2&EntityId=Ar00216&ViewMode=GIF

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