• Playground - Scotch Plains NJ
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a playground "at the corner of Route 29 and Park Avenue" in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, 1936, near Diamond Hill Road. Two tennis courts and bocce courts were built. "Stone walls 16 inches thick have been constructed along each side of the brook, which runs through the playground." A 25-by-35-foot stone shelter was constructed as well. The approximate location of the facilities is shown on the map below.
  • Union County Park System - Mountainside NJ
    From the Morristown Daily Record: "TRENTON—Construction work of the Civilian Conservation Corps has been so successfully demonstrated by Camp No. 3, near Springfield, one of 22 such camps in New Jersey, that Union County Park Commission, under whose jurisdiction the work is being carried on, is receiving many unsolicited letters of commendation of the work, especially that of flood control, according to State Forester Charles P. Wilber….Channel clearing and flood control on Rahway River is but one project….The workers are making rapid progress in the improvement of the 3,000-acre section of Union County Park System, which includes Watchung Reservation, Briant...
  • Watchung Reservation - Mountainside NJ
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted work to improve the Watchung Reservation as part of a massive collection of New Deal improvements to the Union County Parks System.