- City:
- Wrentham, MA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Infrastructure and Utilities, Schools, Water Supply, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In the winter of 1935, the Works Progress Administration started doing work throughout Wrentham, Massachusetts. In 1936, the WPA helped to develop the land for the town’s new elementary school, which the town was in dire need of. The WPA workers took part in drainage and grading work. They laid a water pipe for the new school and lined the nearby brook with rocks.
Source notes
Fiore, Jordan D. Wrentham, 1673-1973; a History. Wrentham, MA: Town of Wrentham: 1973. Woodhams, C. Gordon., and Earle T. Stewart. Wrentham. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.Site originally submitted by Amanda Langley on July 11, 2016.
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