- City:
- Middlesboro, KY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1938
- Marked:
- Yes
Description
The Works Progress Administration was a Federal program during the Great Depression designed to provide jobs and make public improvements. A concrete bridge south of Ashbury St between the Middlesboro Intermediate School and 17th Street has the inscription “W.P.A. 1938.”
Source notes
Middlesborough, Kentucky Brochure, Discover Downtown Middlesboro, www.downtownmiddlesboro.org. 2013.Site originally submitted by Isaac Kremer on November 19, 2013.
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