WPA Bathing Beach – Browns Mills NJ

City:
Browns Mills, NJ

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation

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

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) operated a “bathing beach,” including swimming instruction classes, at the southeast corner of Mirror Lake in Browns Mills, New Jersey.

Source notes

"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; July 1936 issue, page 19. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 8, 2015.

Location Info


Mirror Lake
Browns Mills, NJ

Coordinates: 39.978149, -74.548240

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