Collinsville Consolidated School (former) – Collinsville MS

City:
Collinsville, MS

Site Type:
Schools, Education and Health

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works

Started:
1937

Completed:
1937

Quality of Information:
Good

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Collinsville school was Public Works Administration project w1106. Constructed with a $10,000 loan and $8,181 grant, the project was approved 10/24/1936. Construction began 1/11/1937 and was completed 6/12/1937. In a 1999 interview with Collinsville resident Malcolm Moore, Moore reported “CCC boys built the brick school building that stands today” (Harrison, p. 152). The building is in use today as a private industry following further consolidation and close of the school in the 1960s.

Source notes

Report No. 5. Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. (January 3, 1940).

Region No. 3 Mississippi. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 105.

Public Work grants still being made. (Oct, 26, 1936). Greenwood Commonwealth, p. 8.

Windows to Our Past: Collinsville, Martin, and Schamberville Communities. (2001). One of the oldest houses still standing in Collinsville: Interview with Malcolm Moore by Rubye Vance Harrison, August 1999, p. 152.  Meridian MS: Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History, Inc.

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 9, 2019.

Location Info


West side Hwy.19
Collinsville, Mississippi 39325
Lauderdale County

Coordinates: 32.498321, -88.847093

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