- City:
- Wilmington, DE
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Multiple waterworks construction project were undertaken in Wilmington, Delaware with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. Work on the projects in 1934. It is also listed in the records of the WPA.
(PWA Docket No. DE 1317, W1015)
The building pictured has since been demolished.
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 5.
National Archives Record Group 69-N, Negative #1440
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish, Brent McKee on November 7, 2014.
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