Road Improvements – Gillette WY

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).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 26, 2022.

Location Info


Gillette, WY

Location notes: General location marker for Gillette

Coordinates: 44.291, -105.502

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