- City:
- Monaca, PA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1940, the Works Progress Administration reconstructed Monaca’s waterworks with locally quarried stone. The project cost $50,000. A marker on the building identifies it as “W.P.A. PROJECT NO. 21284.”
Source notes
Bauder, Bob. "Impact of 1930s Works Progress Administration still seen in Beaver County." Beaver County Times (Beaver, Pennsylvania), 30 January 2009 https://www.timesonline.com/story/news/2009/01/31/impact-1930s-works-progress-administration/18308162007/.
"Salute to Monaca," The Pittsburgh Press, 26 May 1940 p.78.
Cornerstone.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Gallentine on May 9, 2023.
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