- City:
- Goffstown, NH
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Forestry and Agriculture, Water Supply, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Pest Control
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
Municipal reports from the 1930s detail local WPA work in Goffstown:
1935
Outlay for New Construction and Permanent Improvements:
Highways and Bridges State Aid Construction, Class V
W. P. A $492.90
1936
MOTH EXTERMINATION
Jean B. Moquin, gas and oil for moth crew . . , $27.97
For White Pine Blister Rust-Control
Paid by State from W.P.A. Funds expended $2,154.87
Area covered 7,091 acres
Currant and gooseberry bushes destroyed…. $43,671
Number of local men employed 8
CASH EXPENDED BY TOWN ON W.P.A. PROJECTS
$2,645.10
Received Dec.9 From W.P.A. for repairs of damage by flood to the Goffstown reservoir $10,000.00
Source notes
Annual Reports OF THE Selectmen, Treasurer and Town Clerk OF THE Town of Goffstown FOR THE Fiscal Year Ending January 31, 1935, 1936, 1937Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on May 31, 2014.
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