- City:
- Baird, TX
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Gymnasiums, Athletic Courts and Fields
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration built the Baird High School gym, football field, and wall in Baird TX.
Source notes
We always were told it was New Deal by my family that lived here since the 1880s. There is a plaque.
The football field has an original stone keystone marked 1937.
https://www.bairdisd.org/392074_4
Site originally submitted by Clay Odom on November 22, 2022.
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