- State:
- NJ
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1940
- Designers:
- Borough Engineer, J. Wesley Seaman
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
This park and recreational lake was created largely by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and dedicated in 1940. The borough of Eatontown funded $3,500 of the cost of the project and the WPA $35,000.
The park is still in use.
Source notes
"The Red Bank Register" May 2nd 1940.
Accessed through the Red Bank Public Library Archives.
Site originally submitted by Bob Hespe on January 15, 2023.
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