Rock Island National Cemetery Improvements - Moline IL

Project type: Cemeteries, Civic Facilities

Agency: Civil Works Administration (CWA)

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Description

Rock Island National Cemetery in Moline, Illinois was improved as part of Federal Project F-87 by the federal Civil Works Administration (CWA). The work done “included the resetting, realigning and cleaning of headstones … as well as the filling-in of sunken graves.”

Source notes

"Report of the Federal Civil Works Administration for Illinois," Mar. 31, 1934.
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074882567;view=1up;seq=82
(page 79)

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 22, 2015.

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