Reservoir Dam Developments – Orange VT

City:
Barre, Orange, VT

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply, Dams

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1938

Completed:
1938

Description

In 1938 the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) conducted “extensive improvement and extension” work to the spillway at the Wheeler Pond / Thurman W. Dix Reservoir dam by Barre in Orange, Vermont.

Source notes

Annual Report of the City of Barre, 1938 (pg. 44).

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 18, 2017.

Location Info


Wheeler Pond
Orange, VT

Coordinates: 44.180464, -72.424888

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