Cottage Street Drain Pipe – Middletown NY

City:
Middletown, NY

Site Type:
Sanitation and Water Disposal, Infrastructure and Utilities

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a drain pipe that enabled better drainage for Cottage Street.

Middletown Times Herald: “Cottage street drainage will be effected by a reinforced rain pipe which will run from street southerly arid parallel with Wisner avenue to about 200 feet north of Wickham avenue and then easterly and parallel with Wickham to a point near the city line. The pipe will cover a distance of approximately 1,200 feet.”

Source notes

"Monhegan Brook Culvert Project Still Featured In City's WPA Program," Middletown Times Herald, Jun. 8, 1938 (pg. 34): https://www.newspapers.com/article/middletown-times-herald-wpa-project-mon/129634866/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 7, 2023.

Location Info


Cottage St.
Middletown, NY

Location notes: Approx. location marker

Coordinates: 41.454048, -74.408973

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