- City:
- Barre, VT
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
In 1934 the Civil Works Adminiistration (C.W.A.) and Emergency Relief Administration (E.R.A.) conducted the following improvement work along part of Washington St. in the City of Barre:
The street was widened, graded, drained, slopes sodded and granite retaining walls built.
The W.P.A. removed disused street car rails from the street in 1938.
Source notes
Annual Report of the City of Barre, 1934 (pg. 55). Annual Report of the City of Barre, 1938 (pg. 39).Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 18, 2017.
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