- City:
- Big Level, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
Description
The National Youth Administration began construction of a vocational classroom building for agriculture and home economics for the H. O. M. E. Consolidated School in Big Level in 1938 as W. P. 5209. The building was constructed of concrete blocks made at the project site. The project cost approximately $2400 and employed 25 boys. Although the building is no longer extant, the site is marked with a Mississippi Historical monument that acknowledges the NYA construction.
Source notes
Series 2018: Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939. United States. National Youth Administration Mississippi. Retrieved from Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Digital Archives https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/federal/2018/detail/3713
Three New NYA Projects Told. (May 8, 1938). Clarion-Ledger, p. 5.
NYA Starts Building Ten-Room School in George County. (May 12, 1938). The (Biloxi) Daily Herald, p. 8.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 3, 2021.
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