- City:
- Middletown, DE
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply, Sanitation and Water Disposal, Electricity
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
Sanitary sewer, municipal waterworks, and power grid construction projects were all undertaken in Middletown, Delaware during the Great Depression, enabled by federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. Work began in 1937.
(PWA Docket No. DE W1021, X1031)
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 5. National Archives Record Group 135-SAR, Del. 1021-DSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 7, 2014.
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