- City:
- Chalkville, AL
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Swimming Pools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Works Progress Administration built a swimming pool for the former State Training School for Girls in Chalkville, Alabama, near Birmingham.
Source notes
Alabama State Training School for Girls, photographs: (https://www.bplcyberteen.org/resources/exhibits/new_deal/girlsschool/gallery/homestead/pa130026.html), accessed November 13, 2017.
Abandoned buildings at the Alabama State Training School for Girls (https://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2016/08/eerie_abandoned_campus_of_alab.html), accessed November 13, 2017.
National Archives Record Group 69-N
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 13, 2017.
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Joe
I believe the pool is still there, but doesn’t appear to have been used as a pool in decades.
I compared period photos of the pool and the background buildings in the photo to multiple aerial photos from 1947 to the present. And the pond that appears in modern sat photos (at least as of mid 2023) is quite clearly the pool. Though, it only appears to be a pond in more recent photos. Probably due to a lack of maintenance.