- City:
- Warwick, RI
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Landscaping and Tree Planting, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1940
Description
By 1940, the tracks of the former Warwick Railroad had been removed from the center of Suburban Parkway in Oakland Beach. As a WPA project, this center strip was landscaped.
Source notes
Page 43, Warwick, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report K-W-1 (RIHPC, 1981)Site originally submitted by John P. on May 11, 2014.
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