- City:
- Taylor, TX
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
The WPA constructed this “arch hollow type dam” in what is now Murphy Park in Taylor, TX, during the mid-1930s.
Source notes
"Taylor Building Work Increases"; The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 22, Ed. 1, Friday, February 14, 1936Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 7, 2014.
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