• Barnard Park Improvements - Goffstown NH
    Municipal reports from 1935 and 1936 detail WPA work in Barnard Park: 1935 "WPA workers are engaged in making the pond into a more suitable bathing place. They also intend to finish the second tennis court which was begun last year." 1936 "The Playground Commission made an inspection tour at the Playground of the proposed project by the W.P.A. early last Spring. This work was successfully carried on under the direction of Harold Phelps and A. Kenneth Hambleton. The upper end of the pond was filled in, the pond as well as the brook leading into the pond was cleaned and the sides lined...
  • Cemetery Improvements - Goffstown NH
    A municipal report of 1934 describes CWA work on a local cemetery: Cemetery Project US.Govt.Funds on C.W.A. Project Paid for labor $1,556.50 Stone furnished $57.00 Total $1,613.50 The town constructed a wrought iron fence, the CWA's share was the granite foundations for the fence posts and granite pillars for the entranceways.
  • Municipal Improvements - Goffstown NH
    Municipal reports from the 1930s detail local WPA work in Goffstown: 1935 Outlay for New Construction and Permanent Improvements: Highways and Bridges State Aid Construction, Class V W. P. A $492.90 1936 MOTH EXTERMINATION Jean B. Moquin, gas and oil for moth crew . . , $27.97 For White Pine Blister Rust-Control Paid by State from W.P.A. Funds expended $2,154.87 Area covered 7,091 acres Currant and gooseberry bushes destroyed.... $43,671 Number of local men employed 8 CASH EXPENDED BY TOWN ON W.P.A. PROJECTS $2,645.10 Received Dec.9 From W.P.A. for repairs of damage by flood to the Goffstown reservoir $10,000.00