- City:
- Spencer, MA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Comfort Stations (Restrooms)
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) workers constructed a bathing beach at Luther [Hill] Park at Lake Whittemore in Spencer, Massachusetts. From a W.P.A. Bulletin:
Down came an old dance pavilion, 300,000 square feet of scratchy brush was cleared and for replacement the Spencer WPA Luther Park Bathing Beach Project now offers a sanded beach with swimming accessories, a 20 section locker house, fireplaces, tables, chairs, benches and a gravel driveway.
Source notes
Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: July 31, 1936 (pg. 2) https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unitSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 10, 2017.
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