May Street Paving – Jacksonville FL

City:
Jacksonville, FL

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

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

Started:
1936

Description

Jacksonville, Florida’s May Street was paved with bricks during the Great Depression using federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor ca. 1936. Google Street View, as of 2015, shows that the southern portion of May Street is still brick-paved.

Source notes

https://131.96.12.97/cdm/ref/collection/SKennedy/id/11694 Google Street View: https://goo.gl/maps/rxIH6

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 12, 2015.

Location Info


May Street
Jacksonville, FL

Coordinates: 30.312088, -81.679745

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