- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Flood and Erosion Control, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
In 1936, relief workers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built emergency flood levees to stop the overflow of the Potomac River. The photographs show WPA crews erecting the levees in the vicinity of the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Source notes
National Archives Record Group 69-N
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on January 8, 2018.
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