• School Improvements - Rising Star TX
    The Works Progress Administration conducted improvement work at the Rising Star School in Rising Star, Texas, in 1939. According to the Abilene Reporter-News, "Rising Star School Gets WPA Allotment RISING STAR, April 12.-- Announcement was received here today that $18,933 had been allotted by works progress administration to the Rising Star Independent school district. The allotment makes possible a project planned by school board members 18 months ago, the cost of which aggregates $25,000. Included In the project will be a new home economics building, a rock veneer for the gymnasium, a deep well for the school's, water supply, a rock fence for the...