- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
According to Work: A Journal of Progress, in 1935-1936 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) extended Massachusetts Avenue SE approximately one mile from Anacostia Road at Randle Circle to Alabama Avenue near the Maryland border, along the southern border of Fort Circle Park.
This project was part of a nearly $1 million in WPA road work around the district in 1935-36. The road still exists though the WPA pavement is probably invisible today.
Source notes
District of Columbia Works Progress Administration, “Many Miles of New Highways,” Work: A Journal of Progress, Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept. 1936, p. 3
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on April 15, 2015.
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