Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
Started: 1937
Completed: 1938
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Description
One WPA project involved “considerable work to be done in Tacoma on Tacoma Avenue and Cleveland and Hendricks streets,” a project which was “allotted $41,892 of WPA funds and will provide employment fer about 179 men to be taken from relief rolls.”
Source notes
WPA Press Release [#333], Nov. 24, 1937, [page 34]: http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/SL_wpawapressrelease_no301to400/SL_wpawapressrelease_no301to400.pdf
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on October 26, 2014.
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Were can I find more detailed information on WPA projects in Tacoma WA? There is a 1938 WPA sidewalk stamp in my neighborhood, N 15th and Junett but I can’t find any info on the project?
Hello Jeff,
If we’re missing the information please take a couple of photos and contribute it as a new project to the site!
Evan