Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Started: 1938
Completed: 1939
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Description
The Works Progress Administration carried out construction and improvements on Gamble Liefte Gade in St. Thomas. Road construction and improvements carried out by the WPA in the Virgin Islands typically included “clearing the old roadway […] widening existing curves, blasting rock from the road surface and drains, relocating where necessary, installing culverts, preparing the subgrade and placing the bituminous macadam surface.”
Source notes
National Archives, RG 55, Records of the Government of the Virgin Islands, Correspondence and related records, WPA Programs in the V.I., 1938-44, Box 2.
Project originally submitted by Brent McKee on September 11, 2017.
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