- City:
- Canonsburg, PA
- Site Type:
- Swimming Pools, Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1934
- Site Survival:
- Extant
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).
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 26, 2022.
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