- City:
- Abilene, TX
- Site Type:
- Landscaping and Tree Planting, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The National Youth Administration (NYA) completed landscaping work in Cobb Park Landscaping – Abilene TX.
NYA Park Project To Begin Thursday: A National Youth Administration park Improvement project for the city of Abilene will begin Thursday, it was learned here yesterday.
Ben Jackson, district NYA supervisor, has instructed local Works Progress administration officials to assign 40 youths to the project. It will consist of building two tennis courts and planting of shrubs md other greenery. Most of It Is to be in Cobb park.
Source notes
Abilene Reporter-News, Abilene, TX, 12/15/1937 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21977639/cobb_park_wpa_abilene/), accessed August 2019.
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on August 8, 2019.
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