Municipal Improvements – Jackman ME

City:
Jackman, ME

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

New Deal Agencies:
Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

Started:
1934

Completed:
1936

Description

Municipal reports for fiscal year 1934 document that the town voted & raised $591 for a C.W.A road project. No details are given as to what was worked on. The 1936 report explains that federal money was spent constructed a road to the local airport as well. The airport itself also received federal funding under FERA, acquiring a 1400 x 100 gravel runway and a 600 x 100 additional feet of construction for existing runways.

Source notes

ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE Plantation Officers OF THE PLANTATION OF Jackman, Maine

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on July 11, 2014.

Location Info


Jackman, ME 04945
Somerset County

Coordinates: 45.631633, -70.24738

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