- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted cleanup efforts at Battery Kemble Park, the site of a Civil War-era fort in the city’s western corner. Crews removed underbrush, poisonous plants, and dead trees to make the park more welcoming to the public.
Source notes
District of Columbia Works Progress Administration, “Improving Parks of Capital,” Work: A Journal of Progress, Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept. 1936, p. 10
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on June 5, 2015.
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