Sidewalks – Saugus MA

City:
Saugus, MA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Sidewalks and Stairs

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

Description

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor constructed sidewalks in Saugus, Mass. WPA Bulletin, 1937:

Residents of Saugus, which boasts of being the home of the first iron factory in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1632), will tell you, at the slightest opportunity, of the need for new sidewalks. Frank Murphy, the WPA coordinator says the town has been petitioned by citizens for the laying of 24,400 feet which would give work to more than 50 men on the relief rolls. WPA sidewalk work has started. Selectmen Chairman William Rockhill says: “The Board of Selectmen approve this project because it believes it to be one of the most valuable types, not only to the adjoining property owners but the entire community.”

 

Source notes

Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Oct. 1, 1937 (pg. 3) https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 19, 2017.

Location Info


Saugus, MA

Location notes: General location marker for town

Coordinates: 42.465, -71.011

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