Woods Road Improvements – Brushton NY

City:
Brushton, NY

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve South Woods Road (then Wood Road) in Brushton, New York, the primary thoroughfare between the town and what was then the main ‘turnpike’ in the area.

Source notes

"Road Project Approved;" Facts and Fallacies, Brushton, NY, Oct. 24, 1935, page 1. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn93063604/1935-10-24/ed-1/seq-1/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 27, 2015.

Location Info


S. Woods Rd.
Brushton, NY

Coordinates: 44.829532, -74.507919

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