- City:
- De Kalb, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools, Gymnasiums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1938
Description
The National Youth Administration built this 1.5 story gymnasium for De Kalb High School in 1938. The gym remains extant.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architectural Series 2018-National Youth Administration Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939. Retrieved from https://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/series/2018/detail/3722 Series 2018-National Youth Administration Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939. Retrieved from https://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/series/2018/detail/3726Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 5, 2014.
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Elizabeth Hickman
My father, Donald Benjamin Harris, graduated from MU in 1938 and was ask to work for the National Youth Administration in Kansas City before he returned to school to earn his masters degree. Where could I find information about what he did.