- City:
- Montpelier, VT
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
Montpelier’s 40th Annual Report details many roadwork projects undertaken in 1934 with Vermont Emergency Relief Administration (VERA) funds, including: “North Street to City Line, grading and graveling”.
Sewer work was undertaken by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935: “402 feet of 6″ sewer was relaid on North Street.” In 1939 the WPA “graded, widened with base, underdrain and gravel surface from Hillhead Street to Mechanic Street.”
Source notes
Annual Report of the City of Montpelier, 1935 (pg. 39).
Annual Report of the City of Montpelier, 1936 (pg. 66).
Annual Report of the City of Montpelier, 1940 (pg. 61).
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 22, 2018.
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