Mabel Farm-to-Market Road – Zionville NC

City:
Zionville, NC

Site Type:
Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted extensive farm-to-market road construction and improvement work in Watauga County, North Carolina. A newspaper photo shows one such WPA road project “from the potato mountain section to Mabel.”

Source notes

"Boondoggling Boomerangs and Blesses," The News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 04, 1939 (pg. 11): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/651562494/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 23, 2022.

Location Info

Mabel, NC

Location notes: General location marker

Coordinates: 36.317512, -81.768095

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