- City:
- Brewton, AL
- Site Type:
- Sanitation and Water Disposal, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Works Progress Administration built concrete and riprap, malaria control drainage ditches within the Brewton city limits. The project built approximately 110,000 liner feet of drainage throughout Escambia County. Along Burnt Corn Creek, adjacent to the Brewton city limit, the WPA built 1,500 linear feet of drainage (pictured). The approximate cost of the entire program was $47,000.00.
Source notes
National Archives Record Group 69-N
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 28, 2017.
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S. R. Scott
One of these historic ditches is preserved in the E. O. Wilson park in Brewton.