- City:
- Springfield, IL
- Site Type:
- Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Description
Illinois’s old Camp Butler was improved as part of Federal Project F-87 by the federal Civil Works Administration (CWA) ca. 1933-4. “The general scope of the project covered improvements to buildings and grounds, landscaping, drainage and minor construction.”
Source notes
"Report of the Federal Civil Works Administration for Illinois," Mar. 31, 1934.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074882567;view=1up;seq=82
(page 79)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 22, 2015.
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