- City:
- Canton, GA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Golf Courses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
From Marguerite Cline in the Cherokee Tribune: “Construction of the current Canton Golf Course was a part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1930s New Deal. It was built by the WPA – Works Progress Administration program. Critics joked about the program and said that WPA meant ‘We Piddle Around.’ But that was not the case when the Canton golf course was built.”
Source notes
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Work Projects Administration, Information Service, Primary File, 1936-42, Box 20, Folder 350-A. Marguerite Cline, “The history of the Canton Golf Club,” Cherokee Tribune, January 15, 2010, accessed August 6, 2014.Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on July 7, 2015.
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