Turnpike Work – Auburn MA

City:
Auburn, MA

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

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

Description

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) conducted the following road work in Auburn, Mass. WPA Bulletin:

This cut-off in Auburn, on the Worcester Turnpike, was washed out by the Spring flood. A WPA construction project is rebuilding the cut-off and 30 feet of the macadam shoulders of the road.

The exact location and identification of the road in question is unknown to Living New Deal.

Source notes

Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Aug. 28, 1936 (pg. 2) https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 13, 2017.

Location Info


Auburn, MA

Location notes: General location marker

Coordinates: 42.195428, -71.845497

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