- City:
- Juana Díaz, PUERTO-RICO
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Military and Public Safety, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- National Youth Administration (NYA), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Youth employed by the National Youth Administration carried out work for a road fronting the Losey Airfield (today’s Fort Allen Airport).
“One of the important defense projects in puerto Rico is the construction of a military road fronting Losey Field. NYA boys quarry the stone, cart it by wheel-barrow and truck, lay it and aid in tar finishing; they also did preliminary excavation and ditch digging. The road is now almost completed. For its construction the boys have cut away and moved half a hill of stone.”
Source notes
National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 119-SSite originally submitted by Brent McKee on May 4, 2017.
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