Route 207 Development – Silverton TX

City:
Silverton, TX

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

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

Started:
1935

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook a project beginning December 24, 1935 that would employ “16 men for three months” working to develop / improve “an 11-mile road south of Silverton to Floyd County line.”

Source notes

Lubbock Morning Avalanche, December 24, 1935 (pg. 10): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/13610709/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 24, 2022.

Location Info


TX-207
Silverton, TX

Coordinates: 34.287913, -101.311613

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