- City:
- Silver Spring, MD
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Sligo Creek Parkway is a landscaped, two-lane roadway in Montgomery County MD that runs parallel to Sligo Creek and the Sligo Creek Trail. It begins at Maryland Route 650 in Takoma Park, travels through Silver Spring, and ends further north at MD 193.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) did extensive work on the parkway in 1935-36, including: “building drains along existing concrete roads, ditch digging, laying storm drains, creek cribbing, footbridges, masonry headwalls; clearing, grubbing and seeding park land; building a running track, foot paths, playground equipment, drinking fountains, and shelters.” (Maryland Historical Trust)
Source notes
National Archives, Record Group 69, “Microfilmed Index to WPA Projects.”
Maryland Historical Trust NR-Eligibility Review Form. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/.../msa_se5_36498.pdf
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on June 7, 2013.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
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