Island Park Development – Green River WY

City:
Green River, WY

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Paths and Trails, Park Roads and Bridges, Landscaping and Tree Planting, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Flood and Erosion Control

New Deal Agencies:
Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs

Description

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked to improve the conditions at Island Park in Green River, Wyoming. Cassity: “In Green River, Island Park was leveled with traditional cut and fill methods to raise the low spots so that flood water from Green River would no longer stand, and this was followed by installing lawn, roads, and paths.”

Source notes

Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 99).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 27, 2022.

Location Info


Island Park
Green River, WY

Coordinates: 41.523079, -109.471031

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