• Acadia School (former) - Madawaska ME
    The historic former Acadia School in Madawaska, Maine was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The building "began as a high school and after several years it was an elementary school. At one time it housed 250 eighth-graders." It presently serves as a suite of medical facilities. The PWA provided a loan of $67,000 and a grant of $26,558 for the school's construction; its total cost was $97,295. Construction occurred between Aug. 1934 and Apr. 1935. PWA Docket No. ME 4758.
  • Municipal Water Improvements - Madawaska ME
    Municipal reports from the late 1930s describe federal funding for water system improvements in the amounts of $2,766 in 1938 and $5,510 in 1939 (the latter under WPA project No. 2655).
  • Road Construction - Madawaska ME
    Municipal reports from 1939 and 1940 document several thousand dollars worth of WPA aid and labor for local road construction projects: 1939: Trucks $ 407.15 Culverts 167.90 Hand Labor 4.00 Gravel 116.65 Materials and Supplies 48.21 Total Expended $ 743.91 Forward $ 743.91 1940: Appropriation $ 1,062.00 Rec'd State of Maine 2,516.99 R. Albert Est. Refund dynamite 18.60 Total Available $ 3,597.59 and 26 people employed on the project.