- City:
- Rawlins, 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 road improvement work in Rawlins, Wyoming, including “the street leading from the [old Lincoln] highway to the county memorial hospital,” now the site of Cathy Gardens. This means the road in question is in likelihood 15th Street or 16th Street.
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
https://www.imhcc.com/about-us/hospital-history/ (Accessed May 27, 2022)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 26, 2022.
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