- City:
- St. Louis, MO
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Infrastructure and Utilities, Cemeteries, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Sidewalks and Stairs
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
Description
“From April 1936 through the early 1940s, Depression-era government make-work programs brought improvements to the cemetery. Works Progress Administration (WPA) laborers were responsible for building 23,000’ of hard-surfaced roads and walks, 46,000’ concrete curbs, nearly 16,000’ of “asphalt macadam” roads, and resurfacing of the same. They also removed some of the original stone wall and constructed nearly 4,600’ of “common ashler (sic) stone wall, as well as miscellaneous grading. In 1946 a new stone boundary wall and entrance gate were erected. The WPA renovated the 1872 brick rostrum that measured 23’x 38’ in 1941.”
Source notes
https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/jeffersonbarracks.aspSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 12, 2015.
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