Papago Highway – Tempe to Scottsdale AZ

City:
Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, AZ

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

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

Quality of Information:
Good

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration carried out road construction on the Papago Highway, connecting Tempe with Scottsdale. This is possibly the road now known as N Galvin Parkway, not to be confused with the Interstate highway known as the Papago Freeway.

Source notes

National Archives Record Group 69-N

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on January 3, 2018.

Location Info

N Galvin Pkwy
Phoenix , AZ

Coordinates: 33.457766, -111.950848

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