- City:
- Gulkana, AK
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The PWA and FERA worked on a segment of the Richardson Highway, from Gulkana to Nabesna. About half of this road was improved to accommodate automobile traffic.
Source notes
Mead & Hunt, and Cultural Resource Consultants, LLC, Alaska Roads Historic Overview: Applied Historic Context of Alaska’s Roads, Prepared for Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, 2014, p. 65. (https://dnr.alaska.gov/Assets/uploads/DNRPublic/parks/oha/publications/akroadshistoricoverview.pdf)Site originally submitted by Brent McKee & Evan Kalish on May 25, 2017.
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