Main Street Water Lines – Parsons KS

City:
Parsons, KS

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

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Description

Oakwood Cemetery in Parsons, Kansas was improved by work undertaken by the Civil Works Administration (CWA). “Plans of the commissioners call for employing … 64 on laying new water lines on West Main preparing for the new pavement … They will start digging ditches along the side of the street. The old water lines were laid in the center of the street and they will be removed when the old pavement is torn up.”

Source notes

"City Projects to Employ 227 More," The Parsons Sun, Dec. 18, 1933 (pp. 1, 3): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/692453456/ https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/692453499

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 24, 2022.

Location Info


West Main Street
Parsons, KS

Coordinates: 37.340467, -95.263570

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