Oklahoma Avenue Sewer and Paving Work – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Sanitation and Water Disposal, Flood and Erosion Control

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Federal Works Agency (FWA)

Completed:
1943

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Unknown

Description

A 1943 article in the Washington Post reported paving and sewer work underway by on Oklahoma Avenue along Anacostia Park in Northeast DC, between Benning Road and C Street.  The work was being done by the Federal Works Agency (FWA).

Source notes

“A struggle for home front morale,” Washington Post, July 18, 1943, p. B5

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on April 3, 2015.

Location Info


Oklahoma Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002

Coordinates: 38.8950, -76.9735

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