Street Improvements – Pennsauken NJ

City:
Pennsauken, NJ

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Sanitation and Water Disposal

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

Completed:
1936

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) graveled “2.1 miles of Pennsauken streets at a cost of $11,552 to WPA for labor and only $1,337 to the township for materials” in 1936. Furthermore the WPA conducted a “drainage and excavation project” involving the resurfacing of 13.9 miles of streets; “WPA cost, $322,271; township cost $25,577.”

Source notes

"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; October 1936 issue, page 24. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 13, 2015.

Location Info


Pennsauken, NJ

Location notes: General location marker for Pennsauken

Coordinates: 40.541, -74.588

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