- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved a segment of Maryland Avenue NE. from Bladensburg Road to Nineteenth Street.
The WPA graded this road, and also prepared it for paving with a foundation of salvaged material. “This work was done in connection with the paving of a portion of the roadway with cement concrete under the supervision of the Construction Division [of the District of Columbia].”
Source notes
Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1938, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938, p. 75.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 7, 2020.
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