Orient Point State Park Improvements – Orient NY

City:
Orient, NY

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1935

Completed:
1936

Description

Suffolk County News reported that between 1935 and 1936, the WPA “improved recreational facilities in [the] following State Parks [in Suffolk County]: Sunken Meadow, Heckscher, Wildwood, Orient Point and Hither Hills…”

Source notes

"$1,220,669 Federal WPA Funds Have Been Spent Here"; Suffolk County News [Sayville, NY], Sept. 4, 1936, page 12.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 18, 2014.

Location Info

Orient, NY 11957
Suffolk County

Coordinates: 41.1301, -72.2660

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