- City:
- Middletown, NJ
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Parks and Recreation, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1936, after an earthwork dam that protected local roads from being flooded by Shadow Lake washed out, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) re-built it.
Source notes
Red Bank Register, March 12th, 1936. Accessed via Red Bank Public Library archives.
Site originally submitted by Bob Hespe on January 19, 2023.
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