Municipal Waterworks - Moncks Corner SC
Construction
Description
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Public Works Administration funded the construction of municipal waterworks in Moncks Corner SC.
Before the waterworks construction, the townspeople of Moncks Corner relied on individual electric pumps and wells for their water supply.
Source notes
Dixie Contractor Lists Approved PWA Projects in State. The News and Courier, Charleston, S. C., July 17, 1938. pg. 6-ii.
Moncks Corner to Have Waterworks. The Evening Post, Charleston, S. C., September 9, 1938. pg. 9-B Water System Tested; Moncks Corner's Supply is Found to Be Satisfactory. The News and Courier, Charleston, S. C., August 17, 1939. pg. 6. Monck's Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina by Maxwell Clayton Orvin, 1951. The Jimmy Cornelius Stone Collection (item not yet online).
Project originally submitted by Ramona Grimsley on January 14, 2021.
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