Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4CQ_lucius-q-c-lamar_Covington-GA.html
Here was located the office in which L.Q.C. Lamar, Statesman and Jurist, practiced law at two intervals from 1847 to 1854, thence moving to Macon and Mississippi. His family located at Covington after his father's death in 1834, and at nearby Oxford in 1838…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5O5_savannah-new-inverness-road_Midway-GA.html
This highway follows an old colonial road constructed in 1736 as a measure of defense against the Spanish and Spanish Indians by connecting the fighting Scotch Highlanders at New Inverness (now Darien) with Savannah. It was surveyed and cleared by soldiers …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5R4_the-cove-gorges-of-the-flint_Woodbury-GA.html
Pine Mountain to the south makes a complete loop forming a beautiful basin 4 miles in diameter known as `The Cove.` It is joined on the south by Oak Mountain, another hard quartz ridge. Flint River has avoided an easier course on either side and has chosen …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5TM_beaulieu-plantation_Savannah-GA.html
Granted 1739toWilliam StephensSecretaryColony Of Georgia1737 - 1740President1743 - 1751Here in 1779 under Count D'Estaing theFrench landed to jointhe Americans under General Lincoln in the seige Of SavannahW.P.A. 1936. D.A.R. S.R.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5UG_ellicotts-mound_St-George-GA.html
Ellicott`s Mound, 5 miles north, at the head of the St. Marys River, was erected February 27, 1800, to mark the boundry between the United States and Spanish Florida, as set fourth in the Treaty of 1795 with Spain. Major Andrew Ellicott noted surveyor of Pe…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM66C_the-prairie-states-forestry-project_Orchard-NE.html
The Prairie States Forestry Project was initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to combat the severe wind-caused soil erosion of the Dust Bowl days. From 1935 through 1942, the U.S. Forest Service, working with the Works Progress Administration…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM6ZI_littlestown_Littlestown-PA.html
The turn of the century brought the continuation of growth and change to Littlestown.
The photos depict businesses and properties which may be familiar to many despite some changes in appearance.
The Littlestown to Hanover trolley line, installed in 1…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7C7_mccormick-county-mack_McCormick-SC.html
McCormick County: Gem of the Freshwater CoastMcCormick County was named or Cyrus McCormick, a 19th century agricultural equipment inventor, who purchased Dorn's Gold Mine (Town of McCormick) after the Civil War. While it is one of the last counties to be cr…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7FT_bain-park-cabin_Fairview-Park-OH.html
Envisioned by Fairview Village Mayor, David R. Bain, this community center was originally completed in 1937 as a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a Depression-era work relief program initiated by the Federal Government in 1935. A fire des…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM7IH_adobe-chapel-of-the-immaculate-conception_San-Diego-CA.html
Originally built as the home of San Diego's John Brown in 1850, the house was converted to a church by Don Jose Aguirre in 1858. Father Antonio D. Ubach , formally a missionary among the Indians, was parish priest here from 1866 to 1907. It is said that he …