Project type: Swimming Pools, Infrastructure and Utilities, Parks and Recreation, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
Started: 1934
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) provided labor for the development of Park Drive in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The work was conducted in tandem with development on the park and its pool. “On Monday, November 19, 1934, … 83 men reported to work. The work force was set to … [grade the] road that would wind around the pool high on the hillside (Park Drive).”
Source notes
"Building the Town Swimming Pool," by James T. Herron, Jr. Jefferson College Times; Jefferson College Historical Society: whole issue #104, March 1995 (pg. 12).
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 26, 2022.
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