- 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.
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