• Breakheart Reservation - Saugus MA
    The CCC conducted extensive work on Breakheart Reservation to turn it into a public park. From the Friends of Breakheart Reservation website: “undreds of men lived and worked here, paid $30 a month, out of which they kept $5 and sent the rest home to their families. It was the CCC who helped develop this land into a recreational area with bridle paths, trails, and picnic areas.” From Wikipedia: "In 1934 the executors for Johnson and Clough sold the Breakheart Hill Forest to the Metropolitan District Commission for upwards of $40,000. The MDC then turned the land over to the Civilian...
  • Breakheart Reservation - Saugus MA
    The Civilian Coservation Corps (C.C.C.) was active at the Breakheart Reservation in Saugus, Mass. 1934 Metropolitan District Commission annual report: "Under Chapter 338, Acts of 1934, the Commission were authorized to purchase about 650 acres of land in Saugus and Wakefield, adjacent to the Lynn Fells Parkway, near the junction of the Newburyport Turnpike. This area, which has been named Breakheart Reservation, will be developed into one of the most attractive recreation parks in the Metropolitan District. Application has been made for establishing a Civilian Conservation Camp by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior." 1936 report: "About 3,000 man hours...
  • Post Office - Saugus MA
    Completed by the Treasury in 1939.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Saugus MA
    "Historic Saugus" Medium: aluminum Size: 3 panels
  • Saugus Town Hall: Founding of Saugus Mural - Saugus MA
    Mural painted by Elizabeth Tracy, later known as Tracy Montminy, depicting the arrival of the first white settlers of Saugus. Originally installed in the since demolished police station on Taylor Street, it is now in the auditorium of the 1874 Town Hall.
  • Sidewalks - Saugus MA
    Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor constructed sidewalks in Saugus, Mass. WPA Bulletin, 1937: Residents of Saugus, which boasts of being the home of the first iron factory in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1632), will tell you, at the slightest opportunity, of the need for new sidewalks. Frank Murphy, the WPA coordinator says the town has been petitioned by citizens for the laying of 24,400 feet which would give work to more than 50 men on the relief rolls. WPA sidewalk work has started. Selectmen Chairman William Rockhill says: "The Board of Selectmen approve this project because it believes it to be...