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Date added: July 13, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
The historic Alliance Municipal Building was constructed between March 1936 and April 1937 with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $78,189 grant for the project, whose total cost was $178,625. PWA Docket No…. read more
Date added: July 13, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
As a result of the drought and the Great Depression in general, many farmers were financially unable to send their children to adjoining towns to high school. During normal times, parents would have been able to provide a high school… read more
Date added: July 13, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
The Long Pine School project was begun and left unfinished by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and the Emergency Relief Agency (ERA). As a result, the school’s roof leaked and the heat did not work. Because the school district’s finances… read more
Date added: July 13, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
On July 25, 1935, the Ainsworth Star-Journal announced that plans were in the works for a new city hall. The Ainsworth City Council had tentatively approved plans for the new building, drawn by Architect J. F. Reynolds of Lincoln. A… read more
Date added: July 15, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) helped fund the construction of a new school in Primrose in Boone County. The new building with a full basement would measure thirty by thirty-two feet. The building had a brick and tile foundation and… read more
Date added: July 21, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
The Gibbon Public School was designed by John P. Helleberg, Kearney architect. The contract for plumbing and heating the school was given to Art Hilberg of Kearney in December 1935. The building was estimated to cost $45,400.00. The Public Works… read more
Date added: July 23, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
In December 1933, the Ravenna News reported that the city of Ravenna had been approached by the Buffalo County CWA (Civil Works Administration) Board with an offer of a grant for $6000.00 for the purpose of building a city auditorium…. read more
Date added: July 24, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
In November 1938, the Legion Hall in Decatur was visited by the State Fire Marshall. The building was declared unsafe, condemned, and no further gatherings could be held within the building for the safety of the public. The building had… read more
Date added: July 24, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
In 1855, the family of William and Rebecca Young were among the early pioneers to arrive in Nebraska following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which opened the territory for settlement. A year later, William Young built a… read more
Date added: July 24, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
In February 1937, officers and directors of the Burt County Rural Public Power Company met in the Burt County Courthouse to sign a loan contract with the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) for $275,000.00 to build 263 miles of transmission lines…. read more
Date added: July 24, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
In 1939, an athletic field was added to the high school facilities. Funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the amount of $3,190.00, workers completed the construction of game fields, bleachers, drives and fences. Landscaping and tree plantings were… read more
Date added: July 24, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
In August 1938, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) gave Cedar County a grant for the improvement of the county fairgrounds at Hartington. The grant amounted to $8,040.00.
Date added: July 24, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
The concept of a library in Ulysses was started by the Womans Club in 1914, when Mrs. Beatty suggested the idea. A committee formed to find a location to house the collection of books, and another to form rules and… read more
Date added: July 24, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2015
The Public Works Administration (PWA) announced a number of projects in May 1937 which were designed to improve or eliminate conditions in schools that might be regarded as hazardous to students’ lives. Shelton was given a grant of $30,900.00 to… read more
Date added: July 20, 2015
In April 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) approved a project for the construction of a new grandstand and tunnel at the Riverside Speedway in Neligh. The project would necessitate the razing of the existing grandstand, which was too small,… read more