- City:
- Peru, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved roads in Peru, New York in 1936, including some Living New Deal cannot currently place:
- “Burie road beginning at Burie farm and connecting with Calkins road”
- “Lyons road beginning at Turner Hill and running northerly to town line which is southerly part of old Military Turnpike”
Source notes
"Many Town Roads Being Approved;" Plattsburgh Daily Press, Aug. 29, 1936, page 3. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84031094/1936-08-29/ed-1/seq-3/Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 26, 2015.
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