- City:
- Havre, MT
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Flood and Erosion Control
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
Description
Montana’s Big Timber Pioneer newspaper reported in 1938 that the WPA “began work of rehabilitating Havre” on June 24. WPA laborers “will clean streets, rebuild walks and bridges and remove debris,” and would eventually “aid in repairing and replacing several bridges on [Hill C]ounty roads, swept away or damaged by the flood.”
Source notes
"Victims of Havre Flood Buried on Tuesday"; Big Timber Pioneer, Jun. 30, 1938, page 1.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 24, 2014.
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