Date added: December 7, 2018; Modified: December 16, 2018
Numerous New Deal agencies contributed to the development of metropolitan Atlanta’s sewer system during the Great Depression. Atlanta initially applied for PWA funding in July 1933, but lack of local contribution caused the city government to withdraw the application and… read more
Date added: October 27, 2018; Modified: October 28, 2018
Built in 1939, this Works Progress Administration project was the Auditorium and Dining Hall for West Georgia College.
Date added: October 26, 2018; Modified: October 27, 2018
Carrollton, Georgie’s historic City Gym building, now known as WPA Center, is a stone building located at the corner of North Cliff and Chandler Streets, overlooking Park (US 27). The building was constructed with Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor in… read more
Date added: October 27, 2018; Modified: October 27, 2018
Along Maple Street, Carrollton is the site of the first Rural Electrification Administration substation in Carroll County, Georgia.
Date added: July 25, 2014; Modified: July 12, 2018
“Experimenting with the First Model of the Cotton Gin” was painted by Edna Reindel with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts for what was then the local post office. The post office has since been incorporated into the… read more
Date added: January 2, 2018
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed Dalton’s old City Hall in 1936. The building is still municipally owned and serves as a secondary city office building.
Date added: December 23, 2017
CCC work at Ocmulgee National Monument included: “preparing trails, including a bridge between the museum and Earthlodge that has become a local landmark.” While the wood surface of the bridge has been replaced, the stone base supports are original.
Date added: December 23, 2017; Modified: December 23, 2017
The CCC worked to restore Earthlodge at Ocmulgee National Monument. NPS.gov: “At the Earthlodge, enrollees puddled clay in large pits, mixed in straw, and then applied the mixture to the inner concrete wall to simulate the Indian architecture. The public… read more
Date added: December 23, 2017; Modified: December 23, 2017
Numerous New Deal agencies had a tremendous impact on the development of Ocmulgee National Monument, the site of pre-Columbian southeastern settlement dating back millennia. “The largest dig ever conducted in this country occurred here at Ocmulgee and the surrounding area…. read more
Date added: July 7, 2015; Modified: December 22, 2017
The WPA helped build Forstyth Golf Course in 1935.
Date added: November 8, 2017; Modified: November 9, 2017
In 1935, the Works Progress Administration funded the construction of a new city hall for Cedartown. Designed by Atlanta architect Otis Clay Poundstone, the Neoclassical Revival style city hall stands out as it overlooks downtown with Main Street (old US… read more
Date added: December 18, 2016; Modified: August 15, 2017
The historic former post office building in Adel, Georgia was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds ca. 1939. The building now serves as the Cook County Historical Society Museum. A New Deal mural, which had been created and housed in… read more
Date added: October 28, 2012; Modified: August 15, 2017
Alice Flint completed this mural, entitled “Plantation Scene,” in 1941 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It was installed in the original Adel post office. It has since been moved to the new one, where it… read more
Date added: August 15, 2017
The historic former post office in Sylvester, Georgia was constructed with Treasury Department funds in 1937. An example of New Deal artwork created for the facility was relocated to the community’s current post office. The former post office is now… read more
Date added: August 15, 2017; Modified: August 15, 2017
Chester Tingler painted this oil-on-canvas work, entitled “Cantaloupe Industry,” with Section funding, for the then-new Sylvester post office in 1939. The work has since been relocated; it now resides in the lobby of the new post office east of downtown.