• Post Office - Kingsville TX
    The historic post office in Kingsville, Texas was constructed in 1936 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.
  • Texas A&M University: Athletic Field Improvements - Kingsville TX
    In 1938, when it was still called Texas A&I College the WPA provided funds and workers to reconstruct bleachers and fence at the athletic field, construct dressing rooms, pave campus drives and beautify grounds. Texas A&M University-Kingsville grew out of the teacher college or "normal school" movement that swept Texas and the nation in the early 1900s. Chartered in 1917 but not opened until 1925 because of America's entry into World War I, the University is the oldest continuously operating public institution of higher learning in South Texas. Shortly after beginning life as South Texas State Teachers College, its role was...