- City:
- Key West, FL
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Parks and Recreation, Marinas and Aquatic Parks
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The CWA built the famous Key West Aquarium in 1934, amid a flurry of relief work by the FERA and the WPA on the island.
Source notes
Durward Long, "Workers on Relief, 1934-1938, in Key West," Tequesta, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1968), pp. 53-61, accessed March 2015At this Location:
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