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Date added: February 3, 2023
We often think of New Projects as going smoothly, but Avalon School is an exception. The educational situation in the Ouray Valley had stuggled: schools and boarding schools had been built beginning in 1885 for the Uncompahgre Ute people but… read more
Date added: January 27, 2023
Clearfield hosted the Clearfield Naval Supply Depot during WWII. Thus, their schools were full to bursting, and not only was Wasatch Elementary built for the Davis County School District, but several other “Emergency Schools” were built in local war housing… read more
Date added: January 27, 2023
This fireproof structure replaced makeshift quarters previously occupied and that had been subjected to much criticism. Here the impounded animals could be kept in comfort until humanly destroyed or claimed (from Jessen). The local Civil Works Administration contributed $2206.10 against… read more
Date added: January 3, 2023
Prior to the building of the Summit County Hospital, operations were done on kitchen tables, in a room over the mercantile, or on a portable operating table. Thus, the county’s doctors were motivated to work with the Summit County Commissioners… read more
Date added: August 24, 2022
The National Youth Administration (NYA), a branch of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for students and unemployed young people, built the Municipal Building in Roosevelt, Utah, in 1941. The Municipal Building is a modest, one-story structure in brick with very… read more
Date added: July 3, 2022
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built football and baseball fields for the former Bingham High School in Copperton, Utah. Over the last 150 years, there have been five successive Bingham High Schools in the Bingham Canyon Area, part of… read more
Date added: July 3, 2022
The Midvale Branch of the Salt Lake County library was constructed in 1940-41 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The building housed a library in front and the County Library headquarters and book processing department in the back. An auditorium… read more
Date added: July 31, 2021
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the South Fork Ranger Station on the Alpine Loop Road (Highway 92), near the intersection of Highway 144, in 1933-34. The CCC enrollees who did the work were from Company 940 stationed in Camp… read more
Date added: July 31, 2021
In 1936, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the original Kamas ranger station for the U.S. Forest Service, just south of Heber UT on Highway 40. (Baldridge, p. 123) The work was done by enrollees stationed at CCC Camp F-43… read more
Date added: July 31, 2021
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the amphitheater at Mutual Dell camp in 1936. It is a modest sized outdoor theater with a concrete and stone stage and wooden plank seating for about 200 people. It was constructed by CCC… read more
Date added: July 30, 2021
In 1934-36, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the beautiful amphitheater at Aspen Grove – today known as the Theater in the Pines. The amphitheater has an elegant stone stage that includes back and side walls with entrances for actors… read more
Date added: July 29, 2021
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in making improvements to Timpanogos Cave National Monument in the 1930s. They worked under the supervision of the National Park Service (NPS). A notable contribution of the WPA was… read more
Date added: July 29, 2021
Timpanogos Cave was designated a national monument on October 14, 1922 and was initially developed and maintained by the U.S. Forest Service and volunteer organizations. The National Park Service took over responsibility for the monument in 1933 but did not… read more
Date added: July 18, 2021
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) made extensive recreational improvements on Mt. Nebo, the highest and southern-most peak of the Wasatch Mountains. The CCC teams worked out of three camps: F-9 at the south end of the Mt. Nebo Loop, F-3… read more
Date added: July 17, 2021
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) made extensive recreational improvements on Mt. Nebo, the highest and southern-most peak of the Wasatch Mountains. The CCC teams worked out of three camps: F-9 at the south end of the Mt. Nebo Loop, F-3… read more