Road Development – Hopkinton NY

City:
Hopkinton, NY

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

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

Description

The Massena Observer wrote in 1938 that the vast majority of municipalities in St. Lawrence County, New York had sponsored relief projects with the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). Among the towns in which the WPA had worked to ‘reconstruct’ roads was Hopkinton.

Source notes

"Many Streets, Roads Improved with WPA Money." The Massena Observer, Oct. 11, 1938, page 5. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84031311/1938-10-11/ed-1/seq-5/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 27, 2015.

Location Info


Hopkinton, NY

Location notes: General location marker

Coordinates: 44.6903, -74.7032

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