Capshaw Elementary School – Cookeville TN

City:
Cookeville, TN

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Completed:
1939

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The School was founded in 1939 as part of the New Deal program for Education. Original structure was built with labor provided through the Works Progress Administration. When new school was built in 2002, old building was razed. Original front entrance is all that remains.

Source notes

The book Rural Life in the Upper Cumberland by Michael Birdwell and W. Calvin Dickinson confirm the fact that the school was built as part of the Works Progress Administration.

Site originally submitted by Carver Moore on April 7, 2017.

Location Info


Cookeville, TN 38501
Putnam County

Location notes: Located on East Hudgens Street in Cookeville, Tennessee. All that remains of original structure is the front entrance. Original site is now the school's playground.

Coordinates: 36.245267, -85.540621

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