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Date added: May 6, 2014; Modified: May 6, 2014
“Constructed in 1836 for Joseph Neibert, Choctaw is a transitional Natchez mansion, containing the general Federal style form established by Arlington and Rosalie while blending Greek Revival details.” (misspreservation.com) According to the Historic Natchez Foundation, the WPA worked to renovate… read more
Date added: September 16, 2013; Modified: April 23, 2014
The rustic log cabin was the first library built in Philadelphia, Mississippi, although the library had been established several years earlier in space in two other buildings. It was a community effort spearheaded by the Twentieth Century Club. The WPA… read more
Date added: November 19, 2013; Modified: April 23, 2014
The rock veneer school building was constructed using rock from the nearby Tishomingo County NYA quarry, and lumber from the NYA sawmill at Longview. A gymnasium (no longer extant) and a teacher’s house were also constructed in Longview. The school… read more
Date added: March 26, 2013; Modified: April 4, 2014
A cantilevered Warren through truss bridge spanning the Mississippi River on US Highway 84 connects Natchez, Mississippi with Vidalia, Louisiana. Mississippi’s project # 1126 opened to traffic on September 26, 1940 after two years of construction (Mississippi Department of Archives… read more
Date added: July 27, 2012; Modified: April 3, 2014
“Homochitto National Forest is a U.S. National Forest in southwestern Mississippi comprising 191,839 acres (776.34 km2). In the mid-1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began reforestation of the area and developing a system of roadways and recreational areas.”
Date added: August 22, 2012; Modified: March 26, 2014
“New Deal mural entitled “Amory in 1889″ painted in 1939 by John McCrady. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with the Post Office.”
Date added: March 9, 2014; Modified: March 9, 2014
Harold Egan’s “The Richness of the Soil” was completed in 1939 for the Okolona, Mississippi post office. It was ordered painted over by the postmaster within days of its installation, for reasons that are not entirely clear, but most likely,… read more
Date added: March 9, 2014
Beulah Bettersworth’s mural “White Gold in the Delta” was completed in 1939 for the Indianola post office under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Bettersworth, who also completed a mural for the Columbus, Mississippi post office, was… read more
Date added: March 8, 2014; Modified: March 8, 2014
“…the vast New Deal flood-control project (1938-42) that dammed the Tallahatchie River and created Sardis Lake, an artificial reservoir that covered hundreds of square miles in western Lafayette and eastern Panola counties. The dam itself was a giant, mile-long mound… read more
Date added: February 21, 2014
The “one-story (plus) gabled, rectangularly-massed, frame club house with brick veneer exterior, has a transitional Tudor Revival/Craftsman style. Windows in front-gabled ell to left of facade have heavy concrete hood and lintel, stepped shutters. Door, also in front gable, is… read more
Date added: February 21, 2014
“A c. 1940 poured concrete dam with metal gates and fixtures. Built with federal funds during the Depression era to help control drainage, flooding on Deer Creek” (Embree, 2004, p. 12).
Date added: February 16, 2014
The rock veneer building was constructed in 1938 by the NYA. The building, in a state of deterioration, appears to be used as storage and privately owned, with restricted access.
Date added: January 14, 2014
The Grenada Community House is a Tudor style “stone-veneered building with false-half-timbered gables, very similar to the community house in Pontotoc and Winona” and is part of the Grenada Downtown Historic District (Mississippi Department of Archives and History). “On February… read more
Date added: November 19, 2013; Modified: November 19, 2013
The wood siding teacher’s house #2 was built next door to the stone veneer teacher’s house #1 for Pontotoc High School. According to the Series 2018-National Youth Administration Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939, the house was constructed by WPA, and… read more
Date added: November 19, 2013
The stone veneer teacher’s house was constructed as W. P. 5288, Application #678, Pontotoc High School Teachers Home. The rock for the Colonial Revival style house was quarried from nearby Tishomingo County, at the NYA quarry. The house is currently… read more