Municipal Improvements – Harrisville NH

Description

According to annual town reports, the New Deal was helping Harrisville (population 512 in 1930) deal with the economic depression very early on after President Roosevelt was elected.

1933
Town Warrant #6. To see if the town will vote a sum not exceeding $500 to remodel and enlarge the town library if additional money can be secured from the C. W. A.”
R.F.C. loan of $336.89 for highway work.

1935
Selectmen and Treasurer Report
F.E.R.A. —— $1,000.00
Highways:
13. W. P. A. project No. 248, $584.90
(c) WPA project No. 248, MacVeagh road and Eastview road: Wilfred Record, foreman, truck drivers material, $584 90
“The highway projects have consisted of widening and
graveling the Marienfeld Camp road, the MacVeagh road from the state road to the Dublin town line, and cutting off dangerous corners on the Eastview road. This work has been done by relief workers certified through the Relief Office and paid from Federal funds, with the exception of foreman, trucks and material. It has been necessary to exceed our appropriation in each, instance but we feel that they have been worth while improvements, and have cut down direct relief expenses.”
E.R.A. Project
NEW ROAD BUILT ON SILVER FARM
(For Cottage Owners)
E. R. A.
McVeagh to Adam place, widen and graveling road, 4.400 ft.
W. P. A.
Adam place to state road, widen and graveling road, 4.500 ft.

1936
Sources of Revenue
W. P. A. Flood refund. $1,083.22
General expenses of highway department,
W. P. A., $2,440.05
STATE AID BRIDGE PROJECT 600 At Chesham, WPA provided 600 bags of cement

REPORT OF W. P. A.
Cutting Corner No. 1, Eastview Road
Week Ending March 28, 1936, Project 248
Flood Work on Various Town Roads
Flood Work on McVeagh Road, Nelson Road, Cabot Road, Hancock Road, Roxbury Road, East View Underpass, Cherry Hill Intersection, & Willard Road.

1937
MONEY RAISED BY TAXATION
W.P.A. $1,000.00
General expenses of highway department,
W. P. A., $956.88

REPORT OF W. P. A. PROJECT 1068

1938
Highways:
14. W. P. A. $1,428.09
MATERIAL HAS BEEN PUT ON FOLLOWING ROADS
BY W. P. A. PROJECTS NO. 1,894 AND 2,010 [gravel and/or clay] Jones road, Venable road, Nelson road, Long Pond road,
MacVeagh road, No. 4 road, Cherry Hill, Brown’s road,
Mason road, Bonds Corner road, Grimes road, Lampman road, Jacquith road, By Blacksmith shop, Marienfield Camp road, Sargent Camp road, East View road,
Edgar Seaver road to Brown’s road, Orin Farwell to Bennett’s road, East side Silver Lake, Beaulieu and South road,
Total – 1,648 yds.

MONEY PAID BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON
W. P. A. PROJECTS
From July 18, 1938 to Feb. 1, 1939
Project 1,670, road improvements, Silver road,
Project 1,670, road improvements and flood work,
Project 1,894, rehabilitation, flood work,
Project 2,010, flood work and forest fire hazard
control, Trucks on flood work,
Total, $5,726.20

1940
WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST CONTROL
W.P.A. WORK
W.P.A. funds expended, $1,176 18
Area covered, 2,140 acres
Currant and gooseberry bushes destroyed, 39,965
Number of local men employed on Blister Rust Control, 5