- City:
- Vicksburg, MS
- Site Type:
- Hospitals and Clinics, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
$4,600 project was allotted for Vicksburg Charities hospital for main building and nurses’ home renovations in 1934. The building that began as the city hospital in the 1840s because a state institution around 1871, operated from a former plantation mansion. It closed in 1989 following numerous renovations/alterations. It was demolished February 2019.
Source notes
Insane hospital ready on Jan. 1. (Sep 11, 1934). Clarion-Ledger, p. 1.
$220,000 is Expended on State Repair Work for First Two Months. (Sep 28, 1934). Clarion-Ledger, p. 18.
Allocation of Funds is Made. (Oct 11, 1934). Clarion-Ledger, p. 14.Improvements by ERA and State Program Completed. (Mar 14, 1935). Clarion-Ledger, p. 3, 5.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory. Retrieved Nov 22, 2019 from:
https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Vicksburg&County=Any
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 23, 2019.
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