Massachusetts Sites

Multiple New Deal agencies carried out improvement, development, and/or construction work at what was then Wrentham State School (now Wrentham Developmental Center). Annual Report: "Much valuable work has been done at the institution during the year through the use of funds provided by the C.W.A., F.E.R.A. and P.W.A. Nine out of many projects presented were approved at the beginning of the C.W.A. activities, and few were completed ..." "The projects sponsored by the government on the P.W.A. program, namely the addition to the laundry, which has been built but is not yet equipped, and the fourth nursery building which will be completed this summer, are progressing satisfactorily."

"The road network that would become North Attleboro's World War I Memorial Park was cut by CCC crews."

The PWA granted $121,800 "for building a jetty in Wychmere Harbor to provide a haven for fishing boats and yachts."

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) laborers worked on Youngs Road Bridge by Baker Pond in Lunenburg, Mass. A WPA Bulletin tells a heroic tale of the men working on this project: LUNENBURG— While excited sympathizers searched vainly for a rope and firemen were speeding from Fitchburg, two miles away, WPA Foreman F. W. Cleveland and his crew working on Young's Road Bridge, saved two police dogs from drowning in Baker's pond, March 4. The Massachusetts Humane Society and the Fitchburg Humane Education Society have been told how the WPA workers by nailing planks end to end formed a path to the dogs who...