Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Sanitation and Water Disposal
Started: 1936
Completed: 1936
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Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) graded Janvier Rd. from Sykesville Rd. to the township line “to a width of 33 feet and surfeced with gravel to a width of 20 feet in Franklin Township. Cross drains will be places and a washout condition now prevalent will be eliminated.”
Source notes
"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; October 1936 issue, page 28. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room. "WPA Plans Work on Rural Roads"; News-Herald, Paulsboro, NJ, Sept. 24, 1936.
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 13, 2015.
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