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Date added: September 27, 2018; Modified: August 11, 2019
The Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge (WNWR) covers 35,000 acres along the Tennessee River near Decatur, Alabama. The Wheeler Migratory Bird Refuge was established by Executive Order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 to provide habitat for wintering and migrating birds… read more
Date added: May 24, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
Originally constructed as an armory, what is now the Fort Decatur Recreation Center was constructed in 1938 with federal funds. The building “was designed by Carolyn Cortner Smith, Alabama’s first licensed female architect.” Living New Deal believes the Works Progress… read more
Date added: May 24, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
“When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt used landscape and park projects to provide relief and hope for America. The second great period of park building occurred during this ten year period when the CWA and… read more
Date added: May 24, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided funds for the restoration of the Old State Bank building on Wilson Street in 1936. The building then became known as Leila Cantwell Seton Hall, though that designation has been largely dropped.