- City:
- Millis, MA
- Site Type:
- Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted improvement work at a (war-oriented) radio monitoring site in Millis, Mass.
Radio timeline: “July 27, 1940: The new WBZ transmitter in Hull begins operation. Special programs were broadcast, culminating in a switchover ceremony punctuated by the decay of three atoms of uranium-235, which switched on the new transmitter. The FCC will take over the old Millis site as a monitoring station.”
WPA project details:
“Construct and improve facilities”
Official Project Number: 265‐3‐14‐45
Total project cost: $28,152.00
Sponsor: Federal Communications Commission
Source notes
Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009 (page C-67).
https://www.bostonradio.org/timeline/timeline-40s
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/foreign-broadcast-information-service/1-FBIS-Early-Beginnings.pdf
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 13, 2018.
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