- City:
- Fort Sumner, NM
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
The WPA allocated $57,584 toward improvements to what was effectively the entire length of New Mexico State Route 20 leading from U.S. 60 in Fort Sumner to U.S. 285 leading from Roswell. The project entailed the “grading and drainage of 45 miles of state road No. 20.” The project was approved in 1935.
WPA Official Project No. 65-85-895(?).
Source notes
National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration; Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T935; roll 41.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 10, 2014.
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