- City:
- Birmingham, AL
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Works Progress Administration built facilities for the Alabama Boys Industrial School in Roebuck, a neighborhood of Birmingham, Jefferson County. The facilities included a dining hall and a heating plant.
The present condition of the structure is unknown to the Living New Deal.
Source notes
Vacca Campus Alabama Department of Youth Services (https://dys.alabama.gov/vacca_campus.html), accessed November 13, 2017.
National Archives Record Group 69-N
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 14, 2017.
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Bettye English
There is a book about the site available on Amazon. The title is A
Home For Wayward Boys and written by Jerry Armor of Moulton,Alabama.