- City:
- Gillette, WY
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs
Description
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted substantial road improvement work in Gillette, Wyoming. Per a CWA project card description: “Make streets of Gillette into all-weather streets for major part of town; surfaced 40 blocks with scoria.”
Source notes
Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 97).
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Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 26, 2022.
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