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Date added: March 19, 2019
The Capital City County Club Golf Course was originally a 9-hole golf course developed by George Perkins. In 1924, the newly-incorporated Tallahassee Country Club purchased the golf course from Perkins. In 1935, the Tallahassee Country Club donated the land to… read more
Date added: March 19, 2019
What is today the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge was originally established in 1931 as the St. Marks Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, a key link in protecting the Atlantic flyway. It cover over 70,000 acres spread out between Wakulla, Jefferson, and Taylor counties… read more
Date added: March 11, 2019
The Bartow Civic Recreation Center and pool were built ca. 1933-1935. Records suggest the project was started by workers in the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and completed by workers in the Work Division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)…. read more
Date added: December 1, 2018
The “Settler Fighting Alligator in Rowboat” mural was installed at the Lake Worth Post Office Mural. According to the Palm Beach Post: “It was painted by Tampa artist Joseph D. Myers under a different program that the Federal Works Agency’s Public… read more
Date added: July 29, 2018
The Farm Security Administration build this camp in 1939 to house black farm workers from the Caribbean. While there is still housing here, this is no longer a camp.
Date added: July 29, 2018
The Farm Security Administration build this camp for white farm workers about 1939. While there is still housing there, the camp no longer exist.
Date added: April 19, 2018
The Archer School Gymnasium was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) with funding from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, as part of the New Deal Project 1189. The building was restored (with ADA updates) beginning with fundraising… read more
Date added: April 2, 2018
A story reported in 1936: PANAMA CITY, Fla., March 21. A cow ate the blueprints of a WPA project here, halting work. B. E. Fulghum, project supervisor, put the plans for a building at the State fish hatchery in Wewahitchka… read more
Date added: March 3, 2018
The WPA conducted beautification and improvement work on the “Tallahassee-to-Monticello highway,” likely meaning U.S. 90. The project employed “45 common laborers at 30 cents per hour for an average of $39 per month.”
Date added: March 3, 2018
WPA projects in Jefferson County, Florida included “five two-room frame school buildings for Negroes at Turkey Scratch, Bunker Hill, Lightsey, and Lamont.” The locations and status of this building are unknown to Living New Deal.
Date added: March 3, 2018
WPA projects in Jefferson County, Florida included “five two-room frame school buildings for Negroes at Turkey Scratch, Bunker Hill, Lightsey, and Lamont.” The locations and status of this building are unknown to Living New Deal.
Date added: March 3, 2018
WPA projects in Jefferson County, Florida included “a vocational school at Aucilla.” The location and status of this building are unknown to Living New Deal.
Date added: March 3, 2018
WPA projects in Jefferson County, Florida included “two three-room and one four-room frame school buildings for Negroes at Monticello, a vocational school at Aucilla, three one-room schools for Negroes in various parts of the county, and five two-room frame school buildings… read more
Date added: March 3, 2018
“The streets and sidewalks of Lloyd were repaired and dead trees were removed from the town [by the WPA] in September 1935.”
Date added: March 3, 2018
“The Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded the 1940 changes to the” former Jefferson County “jail, including the Woman’s and Children’s building.”