Road Improvements – Lyons NY

City:
Lyons, NY

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

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

Started:
1939

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve 6.3 miles of farm-to-market road in the Town of Lyons, New York. On one part of the project, more than two dozen men were put to work reconstructing Pleasant Valley Road. The work enabled all-weather transportation along the improved roads.

Source notes

"WPA Pushed Lyons Road." The Newark Courier, Nov. 9, 1939, page 1. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn85026906/1939-11-09/ed-1/seq-1/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 28, 2015.

Location Info

Pleasant Valley Rd.
Lyons, NY

Coordinates: 43.028767, -77.032872

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