- City:
- Twin Falls, ID
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Infrastructure and Utilities, Auxiliary Civic Facilities, Water Supply, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Culverts & Drainage
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
In 1933-34, a large number of civil improvements were made to Twin Falls, Idaho by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Idaho Emergency Relief Administration (IERA). The works were done by relief workers hired from local jobless rolls in the depths of the Great Depression.
Both CWA and IERA were funded by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), to the tune of around $250,000.
The civic improvements included the City Park band shell, work at the water treatment plant, tennis court at Harmon Park, painting Shoshone Street bridge, grading over 200 blocks of city streets, and graveling 95 blocks of streets.
Source notes
Idaho Evening Times, February 27, 1933, p. 3.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/566133817/?terms=%22new%20band%20shell%22&match=1
Site originally submitted by Richard Walker on October 4, 2023.
Additional contributions by Evan Kalish.
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