| Address: | Begins at intersection of main & carter, S on carter to Comanche, SW on Comanche | County: | Cleveland |
| Started: | 1935 | Completed: | 1936 |
| Agencies: | WPA | NRHP: | No |
Current Usage:
Drainage Canals and sidewalks
Description:
Norman transcript, 4 September 1935, 18 June ,20 July 1936 (from Norman city park new deal resources historic district file at the state historic preservation office)
This drainage ditch is 8’wide; its bottom is lined white concrete, and tis sides are lined with uncut, un-coursed stone in mortar. A few occasional small, mortar-and-stone-lined channels on the ground surface carry runoff into the main channel.
A Norman transcript article on 20 July 1936 stated that a city of Norman WPA project for drainage ditches had been approved. An earlier article on 18 June 1936 had described this project as a rip-rapping two drainage ditches with native stone and cement. It is not known whether this article refers to this particular drainage ditch.
Address: across Cockrell, to Stewart, SE on Stewart to mid-block, sw to center of block 49 (original town site), then se through block 49, across Eufaula, to middle of block 48, then SW through block 48, across Findley, to middle of block 41, then SE through block 41, across Symmes, through block 42 to Apache. Description of resource: small concrete-slab bridges carry sidewalks and driveways over the drainage ditch. Another stone-and-concrete-lined drainage ditch joins this one in block 41. Beginning and the ditch’s intersection with Symmes, its walls become higher and are lined with concrete blocks above the stone; there continues to be a mix of stone and concrete blocks in the block between Symmes and Apache, then it becomes all concrete block SE of Apache.
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