Road Improvements – Cape Vincent NY

City:
Cape Vincent, NY

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

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

Description

The Cape Vincent Eagle reported that the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved 11 roads in the town of Cape Vincent, New York. “All school bus, milk, and rural mail routes, the roads form an important part of the town’s highway system.” The project encompassed eight miles of road, and called for “grading, draining, placing base, trimming shoulders and ditches, surfacing and incidental appurtenant work.”

Living New Deal cannot identify the present name/location of several of these roads, including:

  • McWayne, leading from state highway northerly one mile
  • Webster, leading from state highway southerly two miles
  • Aubertine, leading from Rosiere country road northwesterly eight-tenths of a mile
  • Ainsworth, from state highway westerly one mile
  • French Church between McWayne and Rosiere county roads, six-tenths of a mile

Source notes

"Approval is Given[?] Town Road Project;" Cape Vincent Eagle, Sept. 8, 1938, page 1. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn94057709/1938-09-08/ed-1/seq-1/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 26, 2015.

Location Info


Cape Vincent, NY

Location notes: General location marker for Cape Vincent

Coordinates: 44.1278, -76.3330

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