• Bull Hill Road Development - Sunderland MA
    Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) laborers worked on Bull Hill Road in Sunderland, Mass.
  • Flood Control Dike - Sunderland MA
    In response to heavy flooding after a severe storm in 1936, Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor—under the direction of U.S. Army engineers—constructed dikes along the Connecticut River in many Massachusetts communities, including Sunderland. The exact status and locations of these dikes is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Hatchery Improvements - Sunderland MA
    WPA Bulletin, 1937: "Work of a WPA crew here will increase the output of the state fish hatchery 30 per cent, according to Louis Horst, hatchery superintendent. Last year the hatchery distributed 100,000 live trout, five to eight inches in length, 100,000 which were seven to twelve inches in length and 200,000 smaller trout, the latter planted in feeder streams. An increase of 30 per cent, over these figures will mean a considerable boon to the sport of trout fishing in Massachusetts. The project at the fish hatchery has built four ponds, each 125 by 40 feet, a catch pool, four small ponds, 15...
  • Sunderland Bridge - Sunderland MA
    The Sunderland Bridge is a 1,177 foot deck truss bridge that carries Massachusetts’ Route 116 across the Connecticut River between the neighboring towns of South Deerfield and Sunderland. This bridge is an integral part of the Franklin County landscape, especially when tied together with its neighboring landmark, Mount Sugarloaf. The bridge was completed with Works Progress Administration funding to replace a steel girder bridge that was destroyed during a 1936 flood. The governor of Massachusetts at that time, Charles F. Hurley, and the commissioner of the Department of Public Works, William F. Callahan, hired the contracting company C.J. Maney Co. Inc. to...