Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZBY_rockland-harbor-trail_Rockland-ME.html
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General InformationThe Rockland Harbor Trail is easy to follow. Allow you and your imagination enjoy the Harbor sights along the way. The trail is approximately 5.5. mile[s] from beginning to end, linking many of the city…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZPL_the-historic-cooper-amphitheater_Auburn-CA.html
Kiosk Side A:Creating Jobs and Building CommunityIt started as an "unsightly maze and tangle of briars, brush and junk"? It became "one of the finest open air amphitheaters in northern California?Beautiful in its simplicity and beautiful in magnitude"? [Aub…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZVK_james-a-everett_Fort-Valley-GA.html
Here on the Indian Path that connected two Indian Trails, from Hartford to Fort Hawkins and from Barnard's Crossing to the Old Creek Agency, James Abbington Everett established, in the 1820's, the Indian Trading Post around which Fort Valley arose. He marri…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM100E_guest-mill-pond_Pearson-GA.html
Site of ante-bellum trading post. Dam constructed in 1840 by Duncan Giddens; acquired by Miles J. Guest.1858, and enlarged by him. Water power used for grist mill and gin. Election precinct.1850-1920; Justice of Peace Court held here for area now Clinch, At…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM105X_mennonite-settler_Newton-KS.html
The "Mennonite Settler," designed and sculpted by artist Max Nixon (1915-2000), was dedicated by the City of Newton September 10, 1942. Funding came from citizens of Newton, the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the U.S. Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM10AF_beauty-and-hope_Decatur-AL.html
"This section lying between Sixth Avenue and Eight Avenue will provide the central beautification theme as it will evolve into a beautiful elevated rose garden with 2,000 selected roses planted at vantage points... the color ensemble, when complete is expec…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM10QP_osborne-solomon-valley-highway-24-heritage-alliance_Osborne-KS.html
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Osborne, Established 1871 (Side A)ArchitectureArchitectural Gems GaloreOsborne has two buildings listed on both the National Register of Historic Places. The Classic-styled Carnegie Research Library at 307 West Main serv…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM10SW_the-fort_Taft-CA.html
Constructed on the basic plan of Sutter's original fort one hundred years after its erection in Sacramento by that distinguished pioneer Captain John Augustus Sutter. The building of this replica of one of the most outstanding landmarks to the early Califor…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM10XJ_lawrence-city-carnegie-library_Lawrence-KS.html
Constructed 1903-1904This Carnegie Library housed theLawrence Public Library 1904-1972Designed by George A. Berlinghofin the Beaux Arts styleRear addition was a 1937 Works ProgressAdministration project
Andrew Carnegiepresented this buildingto the People…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM112G_president-franklin-delano-roosevelt_Welshpool-NB.html
The Great Depression 1929-1941The depression was world-wide. In the U.S., the banking system collapsed and 12.8 million people were unemployed. Hardest hit were youth, minorities, the elderly, and workers in the consumer durables industries. There was wides…