- City:
- Newark, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
Thirty men working for the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve West Union Street in Newark, New York, a road which had been previously described by a local newspaper as a “dangerous and hardly passable unimproved road.”
Source notes
https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn88074506/1939-11-29/ed-1/seq-14/Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 28, 2015.
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