- City:
- Canfield, OH
- Site Type:
- Fairgrounds, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
According to an article in the Youngstown Vindicator, the Works Progress Administration expanded the grandstand at the Canfield Fairgrounds in 1936. A historical marker on the fairgrounds credits the “Works Progress Alliance” (presumably a typographical error) with the construction of the grandstand, as well as offices and roads on the site, and “WPA 1936” is etched above the main entrance to the grandstand. The fairgrounds and grandstand are still in use.
Source notes
"WPA Expenses Are 6 Million: Government Gives Work to Average of 6,600 Daily in 1936" Youngstown Vindicator. 2 January 1937, page 8 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=pqgf-8x9CmQC&dat=19370102&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
Historic Marker
Cornerstone
Site originally submitted by Andrew Gallentine on June 3, 2023.
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