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WPA posters: Posters from the WPA at the Library of Congress; Libraries and the WPA: The WPA Library Project in South Carolina; South Carolina Public Library History, 1930–1945; WPA Children's Books (1935–1943) Broward County Library's Bienes Museum of the Modern Book; WPA murals: Database of WPA murals Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
The bridge is a five-span masonry arch structure, built across the dam spillway, where it carries Arkansas Highway 309. The dam and bridge were built in 1937 with funding from the Works Progress Administration, and is a fine example of the Rustic architecture WPA projects were known for. [2]
Woolly Hollow State Park is a 375-acre (152 ha) Arkansas state park in Faulkner County, near Greenbrier, Arkansas in the United States.The park was built and is based on a dam lake, Bennett Lake, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) located at nearby Camp Halsey and Works Progress Administration (WPA) beginning in 1933.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938. It was the simultaneous effort of state-level branches of FWP in ...
The series not only detailed the histories of the 48 states, but provided insight to their cultures as well. In total, the project employed over 6,000 writers. The format was uniform, comprising essays on the state's history and culture, descriptions of its major cities, automobile tours of important attractions, and a portfolio of photographs.
The colony was named after William Reynolds Dyess, a Mississippi native, and the first Arkansas WPA administrator. Dyess gave the idea of supplying farms to families in poverty to Harry Hopkins, and then named the first "Colonization Project No 1." 16,000 acres in Mississippi County were given to this project for 500 different families to come ...
Spring Lake Recreation Area is located in the Magazine Ranger District of the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Yell County north of Danville, Arkansas.Constructed in 1937 with Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds, Spring Lake's rustic native stone and log Civilian Conservation Corp style structures include two picnic pavilions and developed picnic sites, a bathhouse, two swimming ...
West side of AR 5 north of the Havner Road and AR 5 intersection. Norfork Baxter c.1900 8/1/2018 Gibson Court Tourist Court Historic District 903 Park Ave. Hot Springs Garland ca. 1940 12/3/2003 Gillham School 102 North 2nd Street Gillham Sevier 1939 4/3/2019 Goad Springs Cemetery 361 South Goad Springs Road Lowell vic. Benton 1853-1965 12/2/2015