- City:
- Ponca City, OK
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) re-engineered what had been a sharp and dangerous curve taking Old U.S. 77 under train tracks north of Ponca City, Oklahoma. Living New Deal believes this work to have occurred at the coordinates provided. The current route of U.S. 77 skirts this intersection.
Source notes
"22 MILES OF OIL ROAD PLANNED," Blackwell Journal-Tribune, May 21, 1936 (pg. 10): https://www.newspapers.com/image/603602089/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 4, 2023.
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