- City:
- DeRidder, LA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
According to the Beauregard Tourist Commission, “This project in a stump littered field provided employment for about 400 men, who worked to clear what had once been a densely wooded region. They constructed two earthen runways on 160 acres of land leased from the owner.”
Source notes
Beauregard Tourist Commission websiteSite originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on July 7, 2015.
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