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Friday, June 21, 2013

1930's: WPA WORKERS SHOVELING AROUND THE OLD "COMFORT STATION"

This photo from the TRENTONIANA collection at the Trenton Free Public Library http://www.trentonlib.org/Cit-e-Access/webpage.cfm?TID=92&TPID=9353
comes to us courtesy of Mr.Tom Tighue, former Ewing Township Councilman, and Mayor of Ewing Township . It is a very poignant reminder of Trenton during the Great Depression. It is assumed that these gentlemen are part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "WPA;" or as we knew the Works Progress Administration.