Province Lands Improvements - Provincetown MA

City:: Provincetown, MA
Site Type:: Parks and Recreation
New Deal Agencies:: Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Started:: 1940

Description

The Provincetown Advocate wrote in March 1940 that WPA funds were to be used to improve the Province Lands north of Provincetown, MA, now part of Cape Cod National Seashore.

“Within a month 30 men will go to work on a project to improve and reforest the Province Lands with an allotment of $8,192 of WPA funds …”

Source notes

"Work Will Begin On Province Lands"; Provincetown Advocate, Mar. 21, 1940 (page 1).

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 17, 2014.

Location Info

Provincetown, MA Barnstable County

Coordinates: 42.061582, -70.21486

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One comment on “Province Lands Improvements – Provincetown MA”

Diane July 26, 2014

I think that my grandfather worked on the Provincetown project in 1940 as a WPA worker. He also worked on something in Brockton, MA. I know that he was put on a bus with a group to the work site and then bused back. Is this something that your organization can help me with? We had many great projects completed in Brockton by the New Deal.

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One comment on “Province Lands Improvements – Provincetown MA”

Diane July 26, 2014

I think that my grandfather worked on the Provincetown project in 1940 as a WPA worker. He also worked on something in Brockton, MA. I know that he was put on a bus with a group to the work site and then bused back. Is this something that your organization can help me with? We had many great projects completed in Brockton by the New Deal.