- City:
- Stoneville, MS
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1940
Description
$107,000 was approved in the WPA project no. 41003 for the Delta Station Forest Tract for fire lanes, roadways, and general improvements. The Experiment Station purpose was experimental work in lowland forest types. Henry Parker, of Grenada, Mississippi was the project supervisor in charge of “clearing and grubbing roadways and firebreaks (WPA Project, p. 1)…road construction and bridge building; manufacture of lumber for bridges; and stand-improvement work under the supervision of state and federal foresters” (p. 5).
Source notes
WPA project for improvement of Delta Station. 14 February 1940). The Delta Democrat-Times, p. 1,5.Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on August 1, 2014.
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