• Brick Paving - Dalhart TX
    A local source states that brick road paving in Dalhart, Texas was undertaken as a WPA project. Additional information about this project is requested.
  • Grade Separation Underpasses - Dalhart TX
    A set of grade-separation underpasses was constructed in 1939 with the assistance of the United States Bureau of Public Roads. Two underpasses allow railroad traffic to span Denrock Ave.; one underpass brings Railroad St. (U.S. 87) under rail traffic. Multiple plaques on site read: C.R.I.&G. AND F.W. & D.C. RY. UNDERPASS Built in 1939 by the Texas Highway Department --- United States Bureau of Public Roads --- State Highway Commission Brady Gentry - Chairman Harry Hines - Member Robert Lee Bobbitt - Member   Julian Montgomery Highway Engineer   R. R. Tway Contractor
  • Post Office (former) - Dalhart TX
    The historic former post office building in Dalhart, Texas was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1934. The building is now privately owned.
  • Rita Blanca Lake - Dalhart TX
    "Rita Blanca Lake’s heyday began when the Works Progress Administration came to town in 1939. The W.P.A. was formed by the government on the heels of the Great Depression to help create jobs for the unemployed in communities around the nation. The Rita Blanca Lake Project was established in 1939 and newly hired workers began again on fortifying the spillway and dam in order to create that lake that had long been a dream of W. J. Blair so many years ago. According to “A Tale of Two Counties”, the dam was of compacted earth-fill to contain the rainfall runoff...