- City:
- Camden, NJ
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration constructed what is now known as Roosevelt Plaza Park (then known as City Hall Plaza) starting in 1936. The project called for “a center fountain, the planting of gardens, placing concrete gutters, building gravel walks and oiled gravel roadways and construction of a controlled parking area for 150 automobiles.”
Source notes
"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; September 1936 issue, page 18. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 11, 2015.
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