Water System – Spruce Pine NC

City:
Spruce Pine, NC

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1935

Completed:
1935

Description

A waterworks construction project in Spruce Pine, North Carolina was enabled by federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds during the Great Depression. The PWA provided an $11,000 loan and $4,051 outright grant to the community for the project, whose total cost was $14,746. Construction occurred between June and July 1935.

PWA Docket No. NC 5385.

Source notes

National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 107.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 19, 2014.

Location Info


Spruce Pine, NC

Location notes: General location marker for Spruce Pine

Coordinates: 35.915, -82.065

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