Project type: Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Started: 1939
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Description
“In Billings, WPA work crews substantially re-engineered Zimmerman Trail, which was originally hacked into the Rimrocks in 1890 by brothers Joseph and Frank Zimmerman. The WPA crew of 100 to 150 laborers started the project in 1939 with the intention of finishing in four months. The work took at least seven months.”
Source notes
"Traces of New Deal remain in Montana," Billings Gazette, May 31, 2008
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 8, 2018.
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