Road Paving – Bonanza AR

City:
Bonanza, AR

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

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

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) undertook a sizable road development project in Sebastian County, Arkansas: “under the work the main street of every town in the county has been paved. No other county in the state can make this claim.”

Source notes

National Archives: Record Group 69; Entry 755: "Best Project Reports, 1940."

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 27, 2016.

Location Info


Bonanza, AR

Location notes: General location marker

Coordinates: 35.238253, -94.424922

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