Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects
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* USA *Work ProgramWPAHunt Bass Hatchery
Erected A.D. 1936Sponsored ByArizona StateGame DepartmentO.P. No. 65-2-544
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMNDC_norfolk-botanical-gardens_Norfolk-VA.html
These gardens were conceived by City Manager Thomas Thompson during the Great Depression. His idea was executed by city gardener Frederic Heutte; noted landscape architect Charles F. Gillette served as a consultant. In 1938 about 200 black women were paid w…
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CorporalTimothy Francis AhearnD-S-CCompany C 102 Us InfantryTwenty Sixth Division1898 - 1925He Best Exemplified The Spirit Of The Enlisted Men Of The Yankee Division[ north side ]Near Verdun, France on October 27, 1918, after all the officers and sergeants …
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Rendezvous of followers of General Elijah Clarke in the Trans-Oconee Country.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMOF9_the-gym_Herbster-WI.html
When the community sought funding for a new gymnasium and town hall, they looked to the Work Progress Administration, a depression-era program, which utilized local materials and labor to create jobs for unemployed workers. Architect Roland C. Buck of Super…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMOFP_montgomery-city-hall-funeral-for-hank-williams_Montgomery-AL.html
(Front)Built 1936-37Following a fire in 1932 that destroyed a 19th century City Hall, architect Frank Lockwood designed a replacement for the same site. With the Depression affecting all construction projects during the period, the city received federal ass…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMOGV_wpa-post-office_Osceola-AR.html
The Works Progress Administration built this building, dedicated on May 29, 1936, as a new post office. The structure served the citizens of Osceola and the Cotton Highway as a post office until the Postal Service relocated to Johnson Street. Subsequently, …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMOHN_white-mountain-hospital_Springerville-AZ.html
Built during the great depression using native stone & W.P.A. labor, this twenty-bed facility finally opened in 1939 when a doctor agreed to come to Round Valley to finish, lease & run the hospital for 10 years.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMOUL_welcome-to-historic-montevallo_Montevallo-AL.html
Home of the University of Montevallo, American Village and the Alabama Veterans Cemetery, Montevallo is located in the geographical center of Alabama at 33? 6' 18" N 86? 51' 46" W. In 1814, Jesse Wilson laid claim to "Wilson's Hill" located above Shoal Cree…
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Known as the Alabama College Laboratory School, Montevallo High School was housed in Reynolds' Hall on the University of Montevallo campus from 1922 until January 1930 when the central portion of this building was completed. The original structure contained…