Waterworks – Monaca PA

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.

Location Info


599 Atlantic Ave, Monaca, PA 15061
Monaca, PA 15061
Beaver County

Coordinates: 40.69328, -80.28551

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