- 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/rxIH6Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 12, 2015.
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