Road Construction – Madawaska ME

City:
Madawaska, ME

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

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

Started:
1939

Completed:
1940

Description

Municipal reports from 1939 and 1940 document several thousand dollars worth of WPA aid and labor for local road construction projects:

1939:

Trucks $ 407.15
Culverts 167.90
Hand Labor 4.00
Gravel 116.65
Materials and Supplies 48.21
Total Expended $ 743.91
Forward $ 743.91

1940:

Appropriation $ 1,062.00
Rec’d State of Maine 2,516.99
R. Albert Est. Refund dynamite 18.60
Total Available $ 3,597.59
and 26 people employed on the project.

Source notes

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MUNICIPAL OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF MADAWASKA, MAINE

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on July 10, 2014.

Location Info


Madawaska, ME 04756

Location notes: General marker for city of Madawaska

Coordinates: 47.35531779999999, -68.32170

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