All Sites

This is an alphabetical list of every New Deal site on our national map, with a thumbnail photo and text.

• Chabot Reservoir CCC Camp - San Leandro CA

  This New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps camp was built to house CCC laborers as they assisted with infrastructure development and upkeep for the East San Francisco Bay Area water system. In addition to work on water infrastructure, CCC workers at Chabot built fences and managed second growth stumps in the ...
• Chadron State Park - Chadron NE

  According to CCC alumnus Charles E. Humberger, quoted in the Nebraska History journal, “guest cabins were constructed and improvements made at the swimming pool and picnic and recreation area. Roads and trails were improved and drainage structures built. Brush dams were built to control soil and stream bank erosion, and ...
• Chaffee Public Pool - Chaffee MO

  This pool was designed by architect Wesley Bintz and constructed by the Works Progress Administration between 1937 and 1939 for $31,000. It is one of two above-ground pools  designed by Bintz in the state of Missouri (Fayette has the other), two of the last existing above-ground public swimming pools in ...
• Chaffey College Library Paintings - Rancho Cucamonga CA

  "Milford Zornes (1908-2008), a California watercolor artist, is perhaps the most recognized artist of the early California style of watercolor painting. During the early 1930s Zornes worked for the federally funded Public Works of Art Project, producing watercolors to be displayed in public buildings."   (https://chaffeyart.wikispaces.com) The four watercolors shown here were ...
• Chaffey High School and Old Junior College - Ontario CA

  The first building on this campus was opened as part of the Chaffey College of Agriculture in 1885. It became the Ontario High School in 1901 and the present Chaffey High School in 1911. In 1916, the Chaffey Junior College of Agriculture was added as a postgraduate department to the ...
• Chahinkapa Park - Wahpeton ND

  The Works Progress Administration worked to develop Chahinkapa Park in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Work was completed in 1937. "The recreation center includes picnic ground equipment, a modern swimming pool, an athletic field, with lighted football gridiron and cinder track and children's play-ground. The zoo contains many wild birds and animals." ...
• Chalk School Auditorium - Meridian MS

  The auditorium for Chalk School was constructed in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration. Architect Penn Jeffries Krouse designed the addition to the school. It has most recently operated as the Calvary Christian School. ...
• Challis National Forest CCC Camp - Clayton ID

  CCC Camp F-407 was stationed near Clayton in the Challis National Forest. Camp F-407 left structures at Clayton, Loon Creek, and Cape Horn. From the Forest Service: "The site for the Clayton Ranger Station was acquired as an administrative site in 1913. The original station consisted of a three room ...
• Chalmers Court - Austin TX

  On September 1, 1937, President Roosevelt signed the United States Housing Act of 1937. This created the United States Housing Authority (USHA) and provided $500 million for subsidies to be paid from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHAs) to improve living conditions for low-income families. The Austin City ...
• Chamber of Commerce Mural - Hartselle AL

  The mural "Cotton Scene" was painted for then-new Hartselle post office by Lee R. Warthen in 1941. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. “Warthen, of Washington, D.C., produced the Hartselle panel as the result of his entry into the War Department Building Competition. Warthen did extensive ...