- City:
- Huntington, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
A 1936 news story references WPA repairs to a “fire-gutted Town of Huntington incinerator.”
The location and status of this site is unknown to Living New Deal.
Source notes
"$1,220,649 WPA Funds Have Been Spent Here"; Suffolk County News [Sayville, NY], Sept. 4, 1936 (page 12).Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 6, 2014.
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In the August 7, 1936 edition of The Long Islander Newspaper (Huntington, New York) there is a report on the fire and the subsequent clean-up and repair project: https://apa3.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=Suffolk&BaseHref=LIS/1936/08/07&PageLabelPrint=1&EntityId=Ar00105&ViewMode=GIF
In the October 23, 1936 edition there is a summary of the WPA projects in the County: https://apa3.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=Suffolk&BaseHref=LIS/1936/10/23&PageLabelPrint=2&EntityId=Ar00216&ViewMode=GIF