Atlantic Heights :a garden city on the Piscataqua: Historical New Hampshire / Richard M. Candee.
- Title:
- Atlantic Heights :a garden city on the Piscataqua: Historical New Hampshire / Richard M. Candee.
- Author:
- zCandee, Richard M., 1942-
- Call Number:
- 977.8 N5321h
- Publication Information:
- Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Socciety, 2017.
- Physical Description:
- p. 127-129.
- Source:
- Vol. 70, No. 2 (Fall 2017) Historical New Hampshire.
- Description:
- The article describes the mobilization of the ship-building effort on New Hampshire's seacoast during World War I, and the federally-financed housing project to address the shortage of housing for workers in the area. The housing project, called Atlantic Heights, and built for workers of the private shipyard the Atlantic Corporation, was the first government-financed private housing program in the United States.
- Language:
- English.
- Subjects:
- World War, 1914-1918. , Shipyards.
- Organizations:
- Atlantic Heights (Portsmouth, N.H.).
Portsmouth Navy Yard (U.S.).
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