- City:
- Hyattsville, MD
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
Magruder Park is Hyattsville’s major park facility. According to an index of WPA projects in the National Archives the WPA worked on the park in 1935, improving the park, clearing the stream, constructing playground courts, a wading pool and curbs and installing playground equipment.
Source notes
National Archives, Record Group 69, “Microfilmed Index to WPA Projects.”Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on June 5, 2013.
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