- City:
- Missoula, MT
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
McCormick Park in Missoula, Montana was developed by the Works Progess Administration (WPA) on “surplus highway land, a parcel from the American Hide and Fur Company, and land donated from the Kate McCormick estate.” (Wikipedia). The work would have been done by local relief workers made jobless by the Great Depression and paid for mostly by the federal government.
McCormick Park is very much in use today and has been improved over time. We could not determine if any of the original facilities developed by the WPA are still in place.
Source notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula,_Montana
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 1, 2014.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
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