- City:
- Farmington, ME
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Multiple New Deal agencies worked to develop a former municipal airport in Farmington, Maine.
The Farmington airport was initially a FERA/MERA project as part of a state wide airport building program. It was built as a North/South 2000×100′ graded runway, open about June 15, 1934.
W.P.A. project info:
“Construct municipal airport”
Official Project Number: 165‐1‐11‐97
Total project cost: $622,000.00
Sponsor: Town of Farmington
Source notes
Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009 (page C-86).
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 8, 2018.
Additional contributions by Andrew Laverdiere.
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