Skyline Drive Improvements – Reading PA

City:
Reading, PA

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

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

Description

Skyline Drive was improved and a stone wall built by WPA workers along the road “from the Pagoda to McKnight’s Gap,” a distance of nearly three miles through a large area park.

Source notes

"Legacy; Projects from program still in use"; Reading Eagle, Apr. 23, 2005 (page A2).

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 5, 2014.

Location Info


Skyline Dr.
Reading, PA Berks County

Coordinates: 40.349009, -75.90194

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