Link to October 5 Great Falls Tribune article.Excerpt:
Roosevelt's and the Democratic Congress's response to economic chaos was to create the New Deal, seeking to boost the nation's economy and employment rate with an alphabet soup of government programs. The Works Progress Administration was one of those efforts.
Construction projects sprang up across the nation and Montana, from a new Fort Peck Dam southeast of Glasgow to an imposing Civic Center in downtown Great Falls. The Fort Peck Dam and reservoir was Montana's largest New Deal project, begun in 1933 and finished in 1940. Roosevelt visited the site in 1934.
New Deal programs changed the country's landscape, with new roads, bridges, artwork, buildings and even books underwritten by the federal government.
Within a decade, Great Falls also sported a new airport terminal, buildings at the Cascade County-owned fairgrounds and new and renovated schools.
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