- City:
- Phoenix, AZ
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Description
Numerous large-scale street improvement and paving projects were undertaken in Tucson, Arizona during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Public Work Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied outright grants of more than $665,000 (not adjusted for inflation) for the work.
PWA Docket Nos. AZ [W]1067, 1068, 1069, 1070, 1071, 1076, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, 1087, 1088, [X]1119, 1141, 1144
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 190-1.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 24, 2014.
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My Grandfather was a gov’t worker in 1940 . He lived in Sunnyslope at the time. Is there a list of the workers names at the time?