Carbon Hill High School – Carbon Hill AL

City:
Carbon Hill, AL

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Completed:
1937

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the Carver High School in Carbon Hill. The workers built several structures, such as the main school buildings, the Home Economics Building, and the vocational agriculture for the boys. The new facilities allowed the school to enroll hundreds of additional students. The school burned down in 2002.

Source notes

Tornado Rips Tradition from a Town, New York Times, 2002, (https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/13/us/tornado-rips-tradition-from-a-town.html), accessed November 8, 2017.

National Archives Record Group 69-N

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 9, 2017.

Location Info


217 Bulldog Blvd
Carbon Hill, AL

Location notes: (Site of present high school facility in Carbon Hill)

Coordinates: 33.904084, -87.506948

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