Road Improvements – Palmer MA

City:
Palmer, MA

Site Type:
Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities, Flood and Erosion Control

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

Description

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) conducted the following work in Palmer, Mass. WPA Bulletin:

This Palmer WPA Roadside Beautification Project includes the terracing of banks, building of retaining walls, laying of sod and the planting of trees and shrubs to prevent soil erosion.

Source notes

Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Sept. 28, 1936 (pg. 2) https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 15, 2017.

Location Info

Palmer, MA

Location notes: General location marker

Coordinates: 42.158, -72.329

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