- City:
- Ketchikan, AK
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
Public Works Administration project W1011 was approved for municipal improvements in Ketchikan 10/2/1936 in the amount of $67,950. Included was street improvements, removal of piling and planking on Water, Cliff, Main, Stedman, Front, Bawden, Mission and Mill Streets and replacing with treated piling and decking totaling $6,500 feet. The project also included placing gravel in a fill on Stedman street and a reinforced concrete bridge on Stedman Street spanning Ketchikan Creek. Construction started 1/8/1937 and was completed 10/25/1937.
Source notes
Ketchikan to get $67,950 from PWA. (Oct. 7, 1936). Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, p. 8.
Report No. 5. Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. D. C. And Terr. Dist. Of Columbia Thru Hawaii. (January 3, 1940). Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 219.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on December 11, 2021.
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