• Bear Swamp Road Improvements - Peru NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved roads in Peru, New York in 1936, including "Bear Swamp road beginning at Turner Hill and running east to Valcour at station."
  • Peru Central School - Peru NY
    Peru's Central School building was developed during the Great Depression. Its construction was enabled by a $135,000 federal Public Works Administration (PWA) grant, which covered nearly half of the eventual $300,882 total project cost. Construction occurred between Jan. 1938 and Nov. 1939. The educational complex has since been greatly expanded. PWA Docket No. NY 1484
  • Road Improvements - Peru NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved roads in Peru, New York in 1936, including some Living New Deal cannot currently place: "Burie road beginning at Burie farm and connecting with Calkins road" "Lyons road beginning at Turner Hill and running northerly to town line which is southerly part of old Military Turnpike"