Waterworks - Monaca PA
Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
Completed: 1940
Quality of Information: Very Good
Marked:
Yes
Site Survival: Extant
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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.”
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Cornerstone,Waterworks - Monaca PA
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.
Project originally submitted by Andrew Gallentine on May 9, 2023.
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