Start Year: 1935

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) constructed Haina Road. As reported on Mar. 16, 1935: "The asphalting of the Union Mill road was started Thursday under FERA."

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) worked to develop / improve "Haina Road." As reported on Mar. 16, 1935: "The Haina Road connecting Honokaa with Haina was opened for traffic today. This project was started under the FERA seven weeks ago." The exact road in question is not known to Living New Deal.

The former Dakota Club LIbrary, a.k.a. Eagle Butte LIbrary, in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, was improved and expanded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Per NRHP nomination form: In 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved the library building and constructed an addition. The original sod building and its lumber frame addition were both covered with a fieldstone veneer applied by local WPA laborers. A new chimney was also constructed in the addition. The material was furnished by the Dakota Club and the labor was furnished by the WPA. John Collier was appointed head of the Indian Bureau ... in 1933....

The Works Progress Administration built the Fairgrounds in Thermopolis, WY in 1935-1939.

A waterworks project in Kanab, Utah was undertaken with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $30,000 loan and $10,934 grant for the project, whose total cost was $42,005. Construction occurred between Feb. and Nov. 1935. PWA Docket No. 6951. The cistern for the project, which is located at 56 W. 450 N (a.k.a. the end of what is now Senior Center Way), was later converted into a senior center. As of 2024 the facility is home to the Kane County Care and Share. City of Kanab website: "In 1935 the town council, under Edwin J....

The Holy City of the Wichitas represents an utterly unique Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, located on federal land in the Wichita Mountains, Comanche County, northwest of Lawton, Oklahoma. Since 1936 the WPA project has been home to the nation's longest-running Easter pageant, which began in the 1920s. Per the Oklahoma Historical Society: he Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the present Holy City of the Wichitas five miles west of its original location. The installation was situated twenty-two miles northwest of Lawton. A $94,000 grant supported construction. A dedication ceremony in 1935 commemorated the completion of numerous full-sized buildings and structures,...

The Portland Sunday Telegraph reported on FERA road work in the Westbrook community notes. "85 NOW EMPLOYED ON FERA WORK Eighty men and five foremen are engaged in work here under the new FERA setup which went into effect Friday. According to Mayor Rufus K. Jordan, local administrator, the work is progressing smoothly. Seventy men and four foremen are engaged in grading and lining out the Methodist Road, while ten workemen and one foreman are clearing the pasture of the City Farm. Work under this setup will run for four weeks, coming to an end Aug. 29." The town farm mentioned no...

In the Rogue River National Forest, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees from Camp Applegate learned the techniques of masonry construction through various projects at the McKee Bridge Picnic Ground. A 200 foot long rock retaining wall along the riverbank was the largest masonry project. It separates the picnic grounds from the beach adjacent to the Applegate River. The wall, made of local bedrock and river rock, reinforces the terraced picnic area and provides stone steps to the beach as well. There are three staircases in this project. The retaining wall is five to eight feet high, adjusted as required by...

The Community Kitchen Shelter is the largest Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built feature at the McKee Bridge Picnic Ground. The 18' x 35' structure demonstrates the rustic-style design work that CCC enrollees used in the development of many US Forest Service campgrounds in Oregon. During 1935-1936, CCC enrollees from Camp Applegate learned the carpentry and masonry required that went into the kitchen shelter, using local stone and wood. The entrance to the kitchen shelter faces the Applegate River to the south. That elevation highlights the low-pitched wooden roof covered in wood shingles, and use of parallel, flattened logs that enclose the...

In 1935, enrollees from the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Applegate began construction of a forest camp on the banks of the Applegate River near the McKee Bridge. The site already served as a popular local swimming hole and the CCC work would build on this popularity to open new public recreational opportunities in the Rogue River National Forest. The McKee Forest Camp opened in 1936 with privies, a bathhouse, a playground, and a community kitchen shelter as well as camp stoves, fire rings and picnic tables for day use. By the late 1930s, the Forest Camp served as a...