- City:
- Clifftop, WV
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Good
Description
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded improvements for Highway Road. The road is likely still part of US 60/Midland Trail, though its exact location is unknown and is believed to be running from Clifftop Road northwest for the distance as that is approximately 3 miles.
Excerpt from Legal Advertisement, Notice to Contractors, The Charleston (WV) Gazette, March 18, 1939, p. 11: “Public Works Administration Project Docket 1197-F — PWA 3717 Fayette County. 2.379 miles of the U.S. 60 Route. Clifftop Road for grading, draining, Macadam Base, Surface Treatment and Bridge. Certified Check $2800.00 Jack S. Donnachie, Branch Manager, W. Va. State Employment Service, Montgomery, W. Va.”
Source notes
Legal Advertisement, Notice to Contractors, The Charleston (WV) Gazette, March 18, 1939, p. 11.
Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on January 17, 2020.
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