Street Paving – Palestine TX

City:
Palestine, TX

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

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

Completed:
1940

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) paved streets on the south side of Palestine, Texas in the fall of 1940. Some of the streets paved were Angelina Street, Michaeux Avenue and Highland Avenue. The WPA used an iron ore base with an asphalt top.

Source notes

Note cards on historical photographs from the National Archives and Records Administration digitized by the Historic Sites and Structures Program, Texas State Parks (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/141324854@N04/albums/72157666472016086/with/26093516546/), accessed March 27, 2018.

Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on March 28, 2018.

Location Info


Palestine, Texas Anderson County

Location notes: Angelina St. and Micheaux Ave.

Coordinates: 31.75505, -95.62695

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