- City:
- Winslow, NJ
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve roads and highways in Winslow Township, New Jersey. Improvements to the two-mile stretch of what was then the “Old Piney Hollow” wagon trail from Mays Hollow Road to the Monroe Township line were part of a greater construction program to “connect eight farm roads … into a network of feeders to the White Horse Pike and other market arteries.”
Federal funds: $263,631; sponsor funds: $18,505.
Source notes
"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; August 1936 issue, page 20. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room. "Down-County Benefits From WPA Road Work"; Community News, Merchantville, NJ, July 9, 1936.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 10, 2015.
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