• George L. Vogel Elementary School - Wrentham MA
    In the winter of 1935, the Works Progress Administration started doing work throughout Wrentham, Massachusetts. In 1936, the WPA helped to develop the land for the town's new elementary school, which the town was in dire need of. The WPA workers took part in drainage and grading work. They laid a water pipe for the new school and lined the nearby brook with rocks.
  • Sweatt Park Development - Wrentham MA
    According to one comment on an article regarding New Deal work in this part of Massachusetts, "In Wrentham the tennis courts in Wm. H. Sweat Park, in the center were built with WPA funds and labor after filling in a small pond and the original spring. The walls along Bank St. for the park along with the masonry walls around the thn Town Offices/Center School lot were also reconstructed at that time."
  • Wrentham State Forest Improvements - Wrentham MA
    The Massachusetts Department of Forestry acquired "one thousand acres of land in Wrentham and Plainville" in 1934. CCC labor was utilized to "clean up the underbrush, make the woodroads into real roads, rebuild old dams which have been down for many years, stock the ponds with fish, and set out young pine trees."
  • Wrentham State School (former) Development - Wrentham MA
    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."